TEETH EXTRACTION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 7

TEETH EXTRACTION.

THEDTJNEDIN CASE. (BY TELEGEAPII—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Dunedin, November 25. This morning in the Supremo Court tho case of Harrison v. the London' Dental Company, a claim for.£2ooo for alleged negligent and unskilful extraction of teeth, was continued. The examination of P. Moses, ono of tho defendants, was' proceeded with. Witness, continuing his examination in chief, said he had been using anaesthetics for ten years. Ho had been an hon. dental surgeon in the Sydney Dental Hospital. Ho watched his patient carefully during the operation in question, and .took all the necessary pre-' cautions. To Mr. Solomon: He had known of other dentists advertising that thoy wero capable of taking out all tho teeth in one'sitting under gas. . . Mr. Solomon: Wliero? • • In Adelaide, in Melboufno, in Tasmania. Will you say whether it is a fact that doctors havo refused ■ to attend at your surgery to administer anaesthetics ? Yes. Dr. Gordon Mac Donald? Yes. Dr, Williams? ";■ Never been asked. \ Did not doctors refuse to attend because your methods wero too dangerous? No. . You say in advertising you havo a great secrot that onables you to do wonderful things at one sitting. What is it? I prefor not to answer. Witness stated that tho nurso was properly qualified to administer anresthotics, and was able to keep a patient in the third degree of anaesthesia better tl/m could many medical men. ' i Mr. Solomon: You had this young girl of eighteen months' oxporionco administering this poisonous gas? Witness: It is not poisonous, sir. It is absolutely safe. If you gave too much gas death would onsuo. But this young girl was to Bay when tho patient had had enough? Yes, Mr. Solomon, but sho was under supervision. James R. T. Milroy said he had somo yoars' exporienco, and was now a qunlified dontist. Ho came into the surgery during tho operation' on Harrison just aftor tho hitter had becothe unconscious. According to arrangoincnt with Mr. Moses, his duty was to watch tho patient's condition under tho anjcsthotic. lie described the operation on Harrison, his ovidonco in chief being mainly corroborative. Vera O'Kcofn, dentist's nurso, said sho was for somo timo oniployed in the London Dental. She had been away from Micro for a yenr, but during nighteon months' ongagoment with them sho had gained considorablo oxporionco. She corroborated the ovidonco already given regarding the operation, on plaintiff. Moses suddenly said something had gone wrong, and methods to restore breathing wero adopted. ' Tho case at this stago was adjourned till Thuredny noxt at 10.30 a.m.