SHRAPNEL TAKEN FROM BRAIN
REMARKABLE FEAT OP SURGERY SYDNEY June 17. Ex-Private John McClure Kovan, who was struck by a piece of shrapnel in the war and lost his left eye, was operated upon by a Macquarie street surgeon on Thursday, with the result that the shrapnel was extracted from the brain. The metal was a quarter of an inch square and had jagged edges. It was explained that the passage of an object through the brain does not necessarily result iu death, as in one out of a thousand cases the vital parts may not ho damaged. Enlisting toward the end of the war, he arrived in England shortly after the armistice, hut having come so far he was not content to return to* Australia without having seen some fighting. Hostilities \yere then in progress between the Red and White forees noar Archangel, in Northern Russia, anti, with other adventurous spirits, Private Ivevnn joined the White forces.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 7
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