SAVED HIM

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 2

SAVED HIM

TRAIN OPERATION WITH SAFETY RAZOR ‘ ‘WHIFF’ ’ OF WHISKY ADELAIDE, Oct. 7,. Using a safety razor .blade for a knife, Captain Bracegirdle, military secretary to the- Governor-General, performed ap operation on a man., on the East-West express, on a recent trip to Perth. “A friend told, me that a man was dying from blood poisoning, and asked if I could do anything’’, Captain Bracegirdle said , to-day. “I had uever performed ah operation before, but when I saw the state, of the man I realised that something would have to be done immediately. . “His hand was very' -swollen, There was a swelling under the armpit, and a, shooting pain from ■ the left arm pit to the heart:- . • R ■ . “I commandeered , the• dining-sal--0011, boiled .some razor blades,. ana. got lo work! A passenger administered the “anaesthetic’.’. .’.consisting,, of trequent tots of whisky, and, with the train none too steady, I opened up the |hand and cleaned out the pois- ■ ‘ - '-A'. ' •;ftriV. ; • When the doctor boarded at! Kalgoorlie, he said that Bracegirdle had • saved the man’s fingers, aud probably his life.