OPERATED ON AT 103.
Boston, Nov. 8. The often repeated warnings from medical men, that, save in extreme cases, no patient over 75 years of age should ever be allowed to go under the knife, have been set at naught by Dr. Francis D- Donoghue, a Boston surgeon, who recently restored to health a patient over 103 years old. The aged patient was Mrs Jane Robinson, of Dorchester, and just now widespread interest among members of the medical profession centres in the operation for epithelioma which Dr. Donoghue performed. “Mrs Robinson underwent the operation much more calmly than those of a much greater youthfuluess often do,’’ says Dr. Donoghue. “Her heart action did not increase by so much .as a beat. Cocaine was used, of course, to allay the pain, and the entire operation was one of the most successful ever put through. Mrs Robinson, while she cannot be sure that she will live any longer for the relief which the operation has brought her, will, without doubt, while she does . live, be far more comfortable.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 810, 10 February 1910, Page 3
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176OPERATED ON AT 103. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 810, 10 February 1910, Page 3
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