OPERATION ON TRAIN
SAFETY RAZOR USED “WHIFF” OF WHISKY ADELAIDE, October 1. Using a safety razor blade for a knife, Captain Bracegirdle, military secretary to the Governor-General, performed an operation on a man, on the East-West express, on a recent trip to Perth. “A friend told me that a man was dying from blood poisoning, and asked if I could do anything,’.’ Captain Bracegirdle said tojlay. “I had never performed an operation before, fur tv ben I saw the state of the man, I realised something would have to bo done immediately.
“His hand was very swollen, tliero was a swelling under tjie armpit, and a shooting pain from the left armpit to the heart.
“I commandeered the dining-saloon, boiled some razor blades, and got to work. A passenger administered the “anaesthetic,” consisting of frequent tots of whisky, and, with tho train none too steady, I opened up the hand and cleaned out tho poison.” When the doctor boarded the train at Ivalgoorlie, he said that Captain Bracegirdle had saved the man’s fingers, and probably his life.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17909, 13 October 1932, Page 7
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