LIFE SAVED IN STREET
METHOD LEARNED IN WAR A man saved from choking to death in a London street recently by a young German doctor who used a method first discovered during the war. The man was Robert Writtiestone, of Angnes-street, Waterloo, who fell at the corner of Green-street and. Charing-cross-road, and’ appeared to be in a fit. Dr. W. Rosenberg, of Berlin, told a representative of the Daily Telegraph: ... “I saw that his tongue had falion backwards into his throat and was choking him. In another few seconds he would have been dead, for his teeth were clenched and. not be parted. „ . “A policeman had been- trying unsuccessfully to open the mail’s mouth. I pressed the nerved on his neck, which opened his mouth in a second, and with the other hand drew forward his tongue so that he icould breathe again. “The grip by which I did this was i learned during the war, and Is. now taught in the German medical schools.’ Mr. Writtiestone was taken to Charing-Cross Hospital afid allowed, to go home after treatment Dr. Rosenberg is staying Ih LohdOh to learn English, but is not allowed to practise in this country.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1933, Page 5
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