REMARKABLE OPERATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81885, 12 November 1906, Page 4

REMARKABLE OPERATION.

A rf-rii.iik.i'k r i-lT.nt on til' part ut 1.- I' -.' T. t' .1 (11.111 - 111' was discnLec .1. .in ni|iio' .it Soum «aik. Tii' in iu -L v.,i- 11■ .111ve tu ■ n lii'jtii "t l ii- [ii.i- Davie-. niivtie.i. a tarpc. t 1 : app-'iiuiv- of S:i<Hiter's llill i.i.kl, will. .) ■ lic.il'ii a; Guy's 1 fi. i> ial mi ium..r in iii fl ilno.it. lii' u.i- put tin i' i .hi anai .hctic by Mr Y.itor M.ubery. and Di Dunne pirfoinicd ail "I) r.it l a. 1 hih sted'thri i-rpi.ui'i s< t an neur. Tu wards the conclusion it was »«n t'lat Davies showed >igns of i rtui iiing tu cor. clousni-Si. so ho was given a 1 t If mere chlorctotm, so that the ope aton could be finished. This caused s cknea-, and the patient app-'aied tu cease to breathe. Mr Mayberry tu!d the jury t'lat arificia! lespiiatiun was .lien tr ed, and as that failed, Dav!es ! stomach was cut open and the hear, compresed with the fingers with the vew of try !nEf to re=t >rc 1 fe, but t ie hear, would n.-.t respond. "Is that usual."'' Coroner Danford Thomas, who seemed m-

pressed by the nature of the opera tiou "It is done now and again, under exceptional circum-tances ' replied Mr Mayberry, and it has been done successfully before. The jury returned a verdict of death from misadventure, and Daves father thanked the doctors for t'ae;r ■ ff; rts to save hs son.