A DANGEROUS OPERATION

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4403, 27 April 1909, Page 1

A DANGEROUS OPERATION

Sir Victor Horsley, who has been taking up the cudgels on behalf of temperance, is recogv nised as one of the most brilliant and successful of all. who wield the knife to-day. He performs, perhaps, more difficult operations in relation to the brain than any other man living' It is now some twenty years ago since the son of the famous! Academician sprang into fame.! He performed an operation; which, up to that period, been regarded, if not as impossible, at any rate as too daring to be attempted, The patient suffered from a tumour on the brain. There were three chances for him —insanity, death under operation, and the successful removal of the tumour. Young Horsley under* took the operation. He had." and still has, nerves of steel; wielding a trephining saw with a rapid but sure and unerring touch. Tha third chance won , the patient recovered.