OPERATION ON ALLIGATOR.
SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD PET TO THE RESCUE. J3ostock's Junglo at Earl's Court was the scene on July 16 of another unusual surgical operation. Dr. Scott, tho menagerie's veterinary surgeon, who tho provioiis month fitted ono of tno lions.with a glass byo, was called upon to sot a compound fracture of tho lower jaw of a fifty-year-old alligator. On- Julv 14, Sivaj tho half-bred Indian woman who exhibits tho crocodiles, slipped and fell into their tank. Tho pationt, who was a nowcomor in tho ta.nk, immediately attacked her with open, jaws, only'to, be. set' upon,'in turn by Siva's sovonty-year-old pet alligator, who rusted to defend her. In tho battle wliicli ensued the younger alligator's lower jaw was completely fractured.... Tho operation consisted in applying a padotl splint along the . under surface of tho lower jaw after the wound had been carefully sterilised. The splint, which , will bo kept on for. a month, is held in place by adhosive plaster strapping bound round tho jan: and passing over tno tonguo. I
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 10
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170OPERATION ON ALLIGATOR. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 10
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