Tha Good Old Days. —ln his address to tho Christchurch Business Men’s Club on “Advances In Surgery," the other day, Dr. D. N. Eppstein described tho horrors of an operation beforo the discovery of anaesthetics. Tho most desirable quality In surgery of those days -was speed. "It is related of one surgeon that he reached Hie acme of perfection by removing with one sweep of his knife the patient’s limb, three lingers of his assistant, and the coat-tails of a bystander,” Dr. Eppstein said.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19013, 2 August 1933, Page 2
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