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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21146, 2 October 1930, Page 4

The Scotch doctor.who recently saved a. boy’s life by’ bleeding him with the aid of a pair of old scissors sterilised in gin must have had a difficult and anxious task with his emergency instrument. It is surprising, however, what can be done surgically in an emergency. Dr Sidney Jones, who has just retired from his post as ship’s surgeon of the Aquitania, told the other day how he once ‘performed -an operation with a pocket knife and a toothpick.