A TOUGH BLACKSMITH.
BELT FASTENER IN NECK. SYDNEY. July 14. A few months ago, Robert Dalton, a Perth blacksmith, 62 years of age, complained of a growth on his neck. He was treated for a cyst. The wound did not heal, and it was subjected recently to X-ray examination. which revealed a fastener from machinery belting embedded in his neck. The fastener was 2| in long, eighth of an inch thick with hooks seveneighths deep at each end. Dalton said that over 22 years ago ho was knocked insensible by a terrific blow on the back of the neck, a broken belt having hit him Evidently a fastener from the belting had lodged in his neck and remained there ever since. He said that he felt no effect until February last. He had had several other pieces pt steel lodge in parts of his body during his career as a blacksmith. Surgeons considered that tjie belt fastener must have been hot when it entered Dalton’s neck, and thus saved the wound from becoming septic. The fastener "ested directly over the vertebrae, about threequarters of an inch below the skin, where i there was only about an inch of muscle.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3828, 26 July 1927, Page 67
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199A TOUGH BLACKSMITH. Otago Witness, Issue 3828, 26 July 1927, Page 67
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