How easily ribs may be fractured in persons past middle age was illustrated by a medical witness who was giving evidence regarding ail accident claim in the Supreme Court at Auckland on .Monday. He had had as a patient, lie said, a man under GO years of age who had fractured two ribs merely as a result of a rather violent cough, and that cause of fractured ribs was noted in medical literature. Rib fractures did not cause a large amount of shock, and medical men not infrequently came across cases in which X-rays showed the fracture of even more than one rib, although the patient; had no knowledge of such an injury'.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 14
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