A TOUGH BLACKSMITH.
BELT FASTENER IN NECK.
REVEALED AFTER 22 YEARS
[from our. own correspondent.] SYDNEY, July 34. A few months ago, Robert Dalton, a Perth blacksmith, 62 years of age, complained of a growth on his neck. He was treated for a cyst. The wound did not heal and it was subjected recently to X-ray examination, which revealed a fastener from machinery belting embedded in his neck. The fastener was 2§in. long, l-16in. wide, and l-Bin. thick, with hooks 7-Bin. deep at each end. Dalton said that over 22 years ago he was knocked insensible by a terrific blow on the back of the neck, a broken belt having hit him. Evidently a fastener from the belting had lodged in his neck and remained there ever since. He said that he felt no effect until February last. He has had several other pieces of steel lodge in parts of his body during his career as a blacksmith. Surgeons considered that the belt fastener must have been' hot when it entered Dalton's neck, and thus saved the wound from becoming septic. The fastener rested directly over the vertebrae, about fin. below the skin, where there was only about lin. of muscle.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 12
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201A TOUGH BLACKSMITH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 12
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