SURGEON GOES MAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19169, 7 November 1925, Page 11

SURGEON GOES MAD.

SENSATION AT OPERATION. ATTEMPT TO KILL PATIENT. How a highly-skilled surgeon went mad while engaged in an operation, and how a desperate struggle ensued to prevent him from killing his unconscious patient, is the dramatic story told in a message from Tschita, a lonely town far beyond Irkutsk, on the Trans-Siberian Railway. The surgeon. Dr. Rasomin, had charge of the hospital, and the patient was admitted for immediate treatment for appendicitis. "In the middle of the operation Dr, Rasomin stopped and, waving his instrument, shouted: "What's the use of this sort of work ? One stab of the knife and— " The surgeon was clearly about to suit his action to his words, and raised his Unife to plunge it into the unconscious patient's heart, when an assistant grappled with him, pushed him into a corner only a couple of yards away from the operating tables, and, with the aid of his colleagues, managed to hold the soon-raging lunatic .here. The nurses fled in terror, but no help came in response to loud cries, and the operation had to be continued by one of the assistants, while the other kept the madman at bay. Had the surgeon gained the upper hand there is little doubt that the patient and the two assistants would have been murdered. After the patient had been removed Dr. Rasomin was secured and taken to a lunatic asylum. He is believed to be incurably insane.