REMARKABLE OPERATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 5 March 1914, Page 6

REMARKABLE OPERATION.

FEAT BY ENGLISH SURGEON'S. SYDNEY, Feb. 21 One of the most remarkable opera tions of modern times was recently per formed on a young man named Josepl Anderson, a native of Newcastle. H waa working about twelve mouths agon the Australia mine at Kalgoorli when he was injured in a blasting ex plosion, a piece of rock an inch and ; quarter long entering the inner am upper side of the orbit of the left eye it lodged in the porous bone of the skul and tore through tue duraniater, out

of the coverings of the brain, necessarily lacerating the brain itself. The wonder is that he survived it. He paid visits to local doctors, but they were unable to remove the piece of rock. Then ho went to London, and in Si Bartholomew's Hospital a wonderful operation wa.s performed. To remove the rock, fhc eye had to bo pnli.nl out and downwards towards the left ear, and m> large was the fragment that the operators found the greatest difficulty in getting it out. Anderson returned to Fromantle by tii-> o<slei-l«*y ,> U-w days ago. There i.s a large sear over hifi [Ait ove, and he has practically lost the w'dit of that rye. "l?nt J have lost (be rook, too.'' he,'said, "and that wan a ireat thing, wasn't \r; Did i keep ft? Not much. 1 bad it in my brain for (,is months and eight daysi and that was long enough. When' the congress of nodical men from all part;: el ih" world ■Tiifi being Ik-1/( in London 7 had to come down Iroui Ibe North of England and exhibit myself. T|,,. v ; ,j) agreed tliat it

was a wonderful operation." i'erhajw lhc most astounding i hilly -.A all is Tii.it, although AndeT-hon'.s brain must have been considerably lacerated, be suffers neither headache nor any other nervous f-vmptom.