KEPT ALIVE 6 HOURS.
<rx doctors i-ight for girls LI FF. LONDON. Oct. l!0. A *4ll*l patient collapsed altar a delicate anil dangerous operation on her brain, but was kept alive for (it hours by artificial respiration at -Manehestei Royal in-irmary yesterday. Six doctors worked in relays of two at a time. The patient, Hilda Massey. 1">. of Cordon-street. Leigm, was admitted on Saturday with a large ' tumour at the base of the brain. The tumour was remove*! yesterday morning. At noon the girl ceased breathing, but her heart continued to beat, and artificial respiration was immediately begun. In the evening, when the doctors were becoming exhausted, a machine for producing respiration by supplying oxygen was introduced, and the girl was kept alive for an hour and a had. Tn spite of all efforts, however, she died last night.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1923, Page 1
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139KEPT ALIVE 6 HOURS. Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1923, Page 1
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