RAZOR BLADE
SAVES GIRL’S LIFE SIOUX PALLS, S.D., .rune 14, •An emergency operation performed with a razor blade taken from a cigar clipper is credited with saving the. life of Patricia Lee. Fleogc, the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. Herman Pleege. . Apparently choked with a foreign substance, the girl was unconscious when Dr. Gregory I. W. Cot tarn reached • her yesterday. The cigar clipper was the only instrument available.
Dr Cottam made tjuick incisions iu the child’s windpipe, to permit her to breathe, and then rushed her to a hospital. She was recovering to-day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 7
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