PREPARING FOR DEATH

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 9

PREPARING FOR DEATH

ABTIST’S DEEAI> SENTENCE. NOW PACING LIFE AGAIN. A - secret, tragedy which threatened to cloud the life of at famous artist, has. says the ‘‘Sunday Chronicle,'' 1 been averted bv the combined skill of 12 of Britain’s cleverest doctors. The artist is Mr. C. B. AV. Nevinson. Last summer his medical advisers took such a grave view of his ease that .they advised him to make his will and scttlei up. liis affairs.

“You see in me a living miracle of modern British surgery,” Mr. Nevinson said on October 7• “To face life again after preparing' for .death is .an extraordinary experience. A year algo I fell ill with an abscess on the lung, peritonitis and all sor *' s ot complications.

■ “Altogether I suffered a series of five serious bouts of illness and one operation. But it was nob until a final X-ray examination was mad'e that it was dicovered that I had an extremely rare internal complaint. 1 did nob make the recovery my, doctors hafl hoper for, and at 01ie of the specialists who had my case in hand, was forced! to' toll me, that there was'no hope- of a certain opeiotion on which we had been relying being successful. On the day I was told this I went into my studio and pointed. one of the host pictuios I have produced for years. “Then I made my. will, •settled up my business affairs—tbe papers are all; properly filed in . this cabinet—and oven wrote mv own obithai}. After that . I sat down' to 'waih for cleajfch. .You sec, I did 1 ' not mind the thought of death at all. : Aliases, m ni\ opinion,, should leave thp world when they become 45 to 50. An aged artist is ( a, piteous sighh. “Perhaps it was'because my heart was at rest, my nerves quiet, perhaps the combined skill of those wonderful doctors inevitably, had some .effect, but after a- week o. r two 1 began to l’eel belter. “The attacks of agony became less frequent. Now I have been, more than* a month without-an attack at .fifl, and I am told that with constant caro and! treatment I. shall defeat the death that was stalking me. “But I have a few morn years of work, before'-me, and: ■ for' thoib -T amglad, I would like to pay a tribute to the miraculous skill and knowledge of our modern doctors. Thanks to them, I 'm facing Jife again,”