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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1912, Page 6

Dr. Bertram Alden, chief surgeon at the City Hospital, San Francisco, recently essayed to remove his own appendix, and had partially <ompleted the operation when his friends intervened. In an interview, states the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Dr, Alden' says he has demonstrated that the spinal anesthesia, which he had used in his operations, does not completely dull the senses,' and that also a skilful surgeon can, unaided, perform such an operation on himself without fear of consequences. This remarkable surgical experiment was performed JJJ the presence of two of Dr. Alden’s colleagues, Hr- Thomas O’Omnor, and Dr. Mardis. Dr. Aldan start* e l the operation and had almost completed it when Dr. Mardis,' fearing tho test might end in a tragedy, threatened to quit the room unless Dr,. Alden desisted. “ I could have completed the thing singlehanded,” said Dr. Alden. ” 1 injected the spinal antesthesia myself, and I made all the preliminary incisions without the slightest difficulty. In fact, I laid bare the folds of flesh until I reached the inflamed organ. I could have finished, O.a I began, without aid, but the other physicians dreaded a slip of the scalpel and commanded me to stop, threatening to leave me if I -persisted in completing the operation.” New York doctors interviewed regarding Dr. Aiden’s experiment, declare that it proves nothing except' “ rather vulgar advertising,

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