MAN'S HEART REPLACED.
Marvellous Surgical Feat.
New York, April 6,
The most daring surgical opera.ion ever attempted in America was pei formed at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Yonkers, New York, last night. Mr Robert Inglis, a young athlete, became involved in a streef row at Yonkers, and was s.abbed in the heart by his assailant. Tie was immediately carried into the hospital haul placed on the operating table.
Within fifteen minutes from the time he was stabbed, the wounded man was in the hands of Dr E. F. Duffy and Dr. Philip McCormick. More from scientific curosity than any hope of saving Mr IngHs’s life, the surgeons removed a portion .of two ribs, and then took out the heart.
They inserted three stitches between the beats, when the heart was extended to its utmost, and then replacing it, closed the wound.
Within two hours Mr Inglis revived sufficiently to describe the assault, and identified his assailant. Reports received from the hospital this afternoon state that he is proceeding favourably and his recovery is expected.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 391, 30 May 1908, Page 4
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174MAN'S HEART REPLACED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 391, 30 May 1908, Page 4
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