UP-TO-DATE SURGERY.
PEANUT REMOVED FROM CHILD'S LUNGS. (By TeleKrapu.—Special'Correspondents Auckland, May 23. A case of an, operation of an unusual naturo which resulted in tho saving of the lifo of a child, has been recorded at Thames. A week ago a five-year-old boy, the son of Mr. Hanson, inhaled a whole peanut which lodged in tho base of the lung. Inflammation was caused and pneumonia followed. Dr. Walsh was called in, and realising that the removal of the foreign matter from the lung was essential if the child's life, was to ho saved, advised that Dr. Bardie Neil, of Auckland, should bo summoned. Dr. Neil was wired for and, arriving at Thames on Thursday evening he at oneo set about live difficult task of removing tho obstruction. This was done by _ inserting an electrically-lighted tube right down the child's throat into the lung where, by means of tho illumination thus provided! Dr. Hardie Neil, was enabled to seo the lint and successfully removed it. The child is now out of danger and progressing favourably.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1135, 24 May 1911, Page 6
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174UP-TO-DATE SURGERY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1135, 24 May 1911, Page 6
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