LADY’S LOST APPENDIX
The unpleasant experience of having been unwittingly utilised to demonstrate, for the benefit of the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid, the ease with which, a human being’s appendix can be removed, is the ground on which a lady named Mile. Ivayser is claiming data* ages from the deposed Sultan’s surgeons. If is said (according to the Constantinople correspondent of the “ Daily Mail ”) that when one of Ahdul Hamid’s daughters was suffering from appendicitis, the ex-Sultan refused to allow her to undergo the grave risks of an operation unless he were satisfied by a preliminary demonstration that it could be performed successfully. To overcome his fears, it is alleged that Abdul Hamid's surgeons thereupon operated upon Mile. JSayser. who was a patient in the Hamid'eh Hospital at Selnnica. removing her: appendix, though she was nol;, afflicted with appendicitis, in order to: convince ’the exSnltcn by this exhibition of their skill that the "Princess would run no great ri-fc in s’-Vnifeting to an operation at their hands.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7449, 25 May 1911, Page 8
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166LADY’S LOST APPENDIX New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7449, 25 May 1911, Page 8
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