STITCHES IN THE HEART.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8159, 13 June 1906, Page 7

STITCHES IN THE HEART.

WONDERFUL OPERA HON PER • FORMED IN FARIS HOSPITAL.

One of the clever surgeons In the London Hospital last year stitohed up a wound in the heart of a man who had been injured in a street affray. Now Dr. Quenu, of the Ooohhin Hospital, Paris, has sewn up the damaged heait of a young married woman who lives near the Botanical Gardens. The operation proved highly successful. Surgeons have attempted operations, but they generally failed. Heart-stitching is only resorted to in the most desperate circumstances. The patient, who is only 20 years of age, stabbed herself in the breast one morning recently in a fit of anger and jealosy. 'Doctors examined her, and said that she was done for, as her heart was touched by the knife. She was sent to'the Cochin rfospital, and was regarded there as a hopeless case until Dr Quenu saw her, and resolved to try the stitching or satua operation. He was assisted by Dr Daval and M. Sauve, a resident medioal student. The young (woman's chest was opened, and her heart was perceived. It was bleeding from a puncture in the left ventricle. The patient, says the Telegraph, almost ceased to breathe, and rythmio traction of the tongue was practised. Then Dr Quenu, after some trouble, got the heart in bis hand, and within the space of twenty-five minutes effected the stitching of the organ and also of the pericardium, which was damaged, Soon afterwards the patient revived, and what is desoribed by wit tn esses as a veritable resurrection from the dead was accomplished.