REMARKABLE SURGERY
SIAMESE TWINS TO BE SEPARATED. ONE ON THE VERGE OF DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, March 28. (Received March 29, 5.5 p.m.) A remarkable surgical case has been disclosed at Chicago in connection with the Siamese Twins Rose and Josefa Blazek who are forty-two years old. Both are ill, and Josefa being on the verge of death from jaundice, physicians say the death of one will cause the death of the other. The surgeons propose to form an operation in the attempt to free Rose immediately upon Josefa’s death.
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Southland Times, Issue 19478, 30 March 1922, Page 5
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98REMARKABLE SURGERY Southland Times, Issue 19478, 30 March 1922, Page 5
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