DOCTOR’S HANDICAP
SCISSORS FOR OPERATION. BOY PATIENT’S LIFE SAVED. London, Sept. 22. The story of how a doctor saved a boy’s life by operating with a pair of old scissors conics from the Hebrides Islands, north-west of Scotland. A summons reached Loehalsh, in Ross and Cromarty, late at night. The doctor made a stormy six miles’ passage in a small yacht, and a long journey on a rough road. (He found a lad suffering from blood poisoning arising from kidney trouble. The doctor told the lad’s parents that the only hope lay in letting blood, and even then there was only one chance m a hundred of saving his life. The parents agreed to the operation, and the doctor asked for a razor. No razor was available, but a pair of rusty scissors used for cleaning fish and rabbits was produced. The doctor’ cleaned them with gin and water, z and cut the boy’s forearm. The patient will soon be convalescent.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1929, Page 15
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161DOCTOR’S HANDICAP Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1929, Page 15
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