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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1860, 3 August 1918, Page 1

A Eoxton resident when coinmisserating with another who had recently sustained a broken rib. related his experience of forty years ago under ■ similar circumstances, when domestic treatment had perforce to be relied upon. A portly widower lived alone with his two hoys near Eoxton, and during a tussle with it young horse, had broken two ribs, which put him into retirement. Becoming anxious for his welfare, our friend the farmer paid ;i visit to (he invalid, and found him stretched upon the long kitchen table, a board along his back, and two ropes to the rafters, by which ho. was suspended. The sole surgical or medical treatment being that the two boys wore.instructed to keep his capacious stomach fully distended with a constant supply of stiff Scotch burgoo, thus holding the broken ribs will in place. The treatment was successful, and the patient lived many years to recite the story of his boys’ domestic skill and his own study of anatomy.—Palmerston Times.