LIVING HEART WASHED
Geoffrey Knight, the two-year-'old son of a Dover miner, whose heart had been washed daily following a remarkable operation, died in an oxygen tent at Guy’s Hospital recently. Geoffrey, one of a family of five children, had contracted pneumonia and was admitted to a Dover hospital, it was later found that fluid had enlarged his heart to three times its normal size, and it was decided that the only thing that could save his life was a most intricate operation to “ wash ” the fluid from his heart. He was taken to Guy’s, where a surgeon cut away two of the child’s ribs to enable him to begin the draining of the heart. Twice a day the heart was washed out with warm salt water. His condition began to improve, and it was at one time thought that there was a chance of his recovery, but he collapsed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23436, 26 February 1938, Page 14
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