SURGERY WRECKED
ETHER FUMES EXPLODE DOCTOR & CHILD BURNED (9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 20. When an ether explosion wrecked a surgery at Herne Bay housing settlement. Dr. Alan Innes Brown and his patient, three-year-old Allan Revelle, received burns necessitating their admission to hospital. Dr. Innes Brown, whose clothes were burned off his body, is in a serious condition. suffering second-degree burns to the face, arms and legs. The child received minor burns to the head.
The explosion occurred just as another doctor was about to perform a tonsilitis operation on the child. Dr. Innes Brown was administering the anaesthetic with the aid of a “blower.” A spark from a power switch ignited the ether fumes in the-confined space. The surgery was wrecked and both doctors temporarily blinded.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 20 October 1947, Page 5
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