OPERATION UPON KING

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1929, Page 9

OPERATION UPON KING

HOPE FOR COMPLETE CURE CAUSES OF HIS CONDITION HEALING MAY BE TIRESOME By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received July 16, 12.5 a.m. London, July 15. The operation upon the King has been completed. The Prince of Wales left the Palace at 11.35 a.m. looking cheerful. “The abscess from which the King is suffering is just under the wall of the chest and is evidently the result of the removal of a portion of the rib, which left a few fragments of jagged ends of bone,” says the medical correspondent of the Morning Post.

“These ends sometimes die and tend to keep on forming abscesses,” the correspondent continues. “The operation will probably take the form of re-open-ing the sinus and scraping out the passage and removing the bits of bone. After a long septic condition the healing of the sinus may be a little tiresome, especially if it is necessary to leave a small tube. Thus the King will be confined to bed for a day or two, but the operation should clear up the trouble entirely.”