BUTTON IN A LUNG.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 October 1924, Page 5

BUTTON IN A LUNG.

SUCCESSFUL OPERATION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Oct. 6. A button in the lung of Mr Hugh Don, aged 20, of Christchurch, New Zealand, was successfully removed by a bronckoscqpe at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. Dr. Chevalier Jackson, the perfecter of the instrument, performed the operation, from which Don is recovering, and he sails shortly for home. Mr Don swallowed a button during youth, and had been suffering from the lodgment for a number of years. Recently he was induced to come to America, because a group of Philadelphia physicians, notably Dr. Jackson, had succeeded in improving the bronchoscope, enabling them readily to extract safety pins swallowed by babies. Philadelphia consequently became the centre whither American cities sent cases requiring delicate bronchoscope •work, persistent research in which has greatly minimised the risk of such operations, reducing them to the status of routine. This case aroused considerable interest in. New Zealand recently. Mr Don was an inmate of the Christchurch Hospital, and it was stated that the doctors would not perform. an operation, as the only place it could be performed with promise of success was in Philadelphia. Arrangements were then made for Mr Don to go to America.