SCREW IN LUNG

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10478, 7 January 1928, Page 7

SCREW IN LUNG

DELICATE SURGED 7 SUCCESSEUb.

Robert Mall (aged 4) is none the worse for an intricate opevat’on atRoy 1 1 Prince Alfred llos a*- ■ t >' i ■i’\. Ui remove a rusty screw -'fiv hi!s lung. Nearly seventy years aeo carpenter Dannie O’Brien, at W aloha, handled a screw measuring an inch and ahalf which he screwed into a small handkerchief box. The screw was destined to bring much trouble to the Wall family at Wrdeha. ■ Littlep Robert, playing about bis home, found the box, with the screw loose, and he decided that it' was just the screw to mend the lock on tlie bedroom door. He got tlie hammer and started work ; dropped the hammer; put the screw: in his mouth while ho bent to pick it. up. •As he stood up the screw slipped down his threat. The medical men found the iob of removing it ‘ too intricate. so they: advised' his father to take him to the citv.. Ten, days after the failure of his ear peri teriilg ’ venture, Robert Wall was laid oil the oneratimr table of the Prince Alfred Hospital and the brenclioscoce, a tubular instrument with a light; and a pair of tweezers on tilri end. brought the screw back into daylight. ' .Poc'tors'. were amazed; that Robert espaned septic pneumonia. and astonished at his swift recoverp.