BULLET IN MAN’S LUNG.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 December 1925, Page 8

BULLET IN MAN’S LUNG.

REMOVED BY OPERATION. WONDERFUL SURGICAL FEAT. By a wonderful piece of surgery, a .Turkish bullet, which for nine years lay embedded in the left lung of Mr. Tom Freemantle Perry, who was wounded when serving with the 6th New South Wales Light- Horse in Palestine, now reposes in his waistcoat pocket, says the fjSyduev Morning Herald. Doctors having then considered it inadvisable to operate, Perry was sent back to Australia and discharged in 1917. He re-enlisted in the 30th Battalion, A. I. F., and went to England, but collapsed under training and was once more returned to Australia, being finally discharged in 1918 as unfit for further service. Finding himself unable to do hard work, Mr. Perry returned to England, and, becoming worse he, on the advice of a Southampton doctor, entered Roehampton Hospital, where Dr. Roberts, a lung specialist, told him an operation, which lie said would be a delicate and risky one, was imperative if hiS life was to be lengthened. Perry took the risk and Dr. Roberts performed the operation, which was a complete success. To get at the lung it was necessary to remove a portion of two ribs, and when the lung was exposed it had to he cut in two in order to extract the bullet.