At the Kin« Edward VII. Hospital, Windsor, a bullet was extracted from near the rihs of an o\'-sohlier. whieh had been there since the battle of Diamond Hill in. the liner war in June, I'.WO. In sary to remove the appendix, but her state of health forbade the use of ordinary anaesthetics. Some 20 drops of stovaine were injected in the spinal canal at the level of the waist. Tn ten minutes the patient had lost all sense of feeling from the chest downwards. A screen was placed across her body, shielding the area to be operated upon. The girl chatted and read, and was unaware that the operation was being carried out until it was nearly completed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 282, 25 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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118Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 282, 25 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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