A Difficult Surreal Operation.
-♦--- — ;■■ . Some time ago a/gon of Mr 4Ldajn Johnstone, Okaiawft, ' was' in tbjf bush, when he struct? fail iiead^ against a rata limb. -Not much ob^~ tice of the mishap was t&etf af r 'lh« f time, bat subsequently MtifficotiiiXi- * suits threatened. _|Ie became a& dieted to fits, beiifc subject to as many as two in a wej&k. Jft waf, indeed, feared that his days| were numbered. He was taken to JJew Plymouth, and placed under me;£ate of Dr Christie. It was thft^sjita'tbjif * the only hope of saving &e was by performing a jritical and dangerous operation, enjpUog great skill on the part of tfife surgeon. - The operation necessitated the removal and replacing of a large por- I 1 tion of the skull bone, and removing i the clotted blood. This operation 1 waa performed, the lad being 1 hours under choloroform, and it j ranks as one of the greatest surgical j feats performed in the Cblony. Dr. I Mackenzie, Wellington , gjirpregenfc -1 during tbe operation. MJllad is io r as good health as ev^Bft # Hawera Star. 3
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Manawatu Herald, 8 January 1895, Page 2
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182A Difficult Surreal Operation. Manawatu Herald, 8 January 1895, Page 2
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