AMAZING SURGICAL OPERATION
Sir Henry Holland, the famous surgeon, gave the East India Association, the other day a lively account of hia success in operating on an old Pathsu, woman in India with a crochet hook, hairpins, and a pair of embroidery scissors . for r instruments. This. is hi* story:— The woman had a double cataract, and I worked under a juniper tree. A lady provided a fine crochet .hook, which acted as an iris hook. (Tha iris is the circular coloured curtain wa see in’ the eye, through which the light enters by the round hole we call the .pupil.) From some hairpins wa made a rough-and-ready eye speculum, and a pair of embroidery scissor* served for iris scissors. I had with me some cocaine, a cataract knife, and a pair of forceps. 1 operated on both eyes, and the woman had an excellent result in spite of my treatmenti Shades of Harley Street!
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Evening Star, Issue 22444, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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155AMAZING SURGICAL OPERATION Evening Star, Issue 22444, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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