A SURGEON'S MISTAKE.
WOMAN PATIENT BURNED.MURDER CHARGE LAID. A. and N.Z. > V PARIS, Jan. 12. Dr. Cqlombet , has been charged with culpable homicide. He placed Madame Cabine, ■ an appendicitis \ case, .Oh the operating table, and heated the electric radiator./ As he\ administered cocaine tne woman cried out, "I am being burnt.'' The doctor replied, ''That's the cocaine." The woman became insensible. After the ■ operation it was found that her, legs and • back were terribly burned. 'The; coils c.f the radiator, had beep red hot.; The woman died in terrible- agony three da,y» 'later.- • , ■ ■■■ '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 7
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93A SURGEON'S MISTAKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 7
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