SURGEON'S CARELESSNESS
PATIENTS DEATH FROM BURNS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, January 13. (Received Jan. 14, at 5.5 p.m.) Doctor Colombet has been charged with culpable homicide. He placed Madfmie Cabine, an appendicitis case, on an operating table, lie. by an electric radiator. As he administered cocaine, the woman cried, “I am being burnt.” The doctor replied; That is the cocaine. The woman became insensible. After the operation it was found that her legs and back were terribly burnt. The coils of the radiator were red hot. The patient died in horrible agony with-, in three days.—A. and N.Z. Cable'.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18761, 15 January 1923, Page 5
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