DOCTORS DIES AT OPERATION.
i'.VU.S DEAD 'RESIDE HIS PATIENT IN A HOSl'tl'AE. Loudon, November 2U Dr George llagoi Ferguson, who was one t.-f the leading medical practitioners at Cliclteiihani, died suddenly yeslcrtlay while p.rfunmiig an opciation .in a patient at h-dleiiini'ii Hospital. lie was senior surgeon, at the litis pilal, iiutl oil Ju-siia;,- e\cuiag nn-ic,-t, i.k an exceedingly diiiicult and eritidl oiier.itiou m Ike piet-eiice of the re-ident house ,-urgcon... Wlii'e proceeding villi his work Dr FcigUr-on ci-napv'il, and died ,i:i,ic,:-t immediately from lieart l'aiuiv. The paUcnl was kept under auues thetics while three oilier surgeons Here telephoned lor, and when they arrived the operation which hid been interrupt"d in so tragic a manner was completed. Er Ferguson was -well-known, linmedical circles throughout Hie conn try. In. 11)01 he was president cf the Jiritish .Medical Association,, and he concluded his presidential address with Longfellow's words:--There is no death! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but the suburb of the life Klysian Whose portals we call Death.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 16 January 1907, Page 4
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171DOCTORS DIES AT OPERATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 16 January 1907, Page 4
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