LIME-ENCASED HEART
SUCCESS OF OPERATION PATIENT IMPROVING ROCHESTER (United States), May 19. (Received May 19, at 10.5 p.m.) Alec Watkins, whose heart js stated to be completely encased in lime, seems to be on the way to recovery after being operated on last week at the Mayo brothers’ clinic. He is sitting up and able to eat. Watkins’s condition is known as constructive pericarditis.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23505, 20 May 1938, Page 9
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