BOY’S LIFE SAVED
REMARKABLE OPERATION IN MELBOURNE HOSPITAL LARGE TACK IN LUNG Oinked Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) MELBOURNE, Nov. 25 A remarkable operation performed in a children's hospital to-day saved the life of a boy aged 10 years who for three years had had a three-quarter-inch tack embedded deep in his right lung. To remove the tack the surgeon had to open the body from the spine round to the centre of (he abdomen, exposing the lung. The boy had been a frequent patient. It became apparent that if his life were to be saved the tack must be removed. Preparatory to the operation the lung was collapsed a week ago with air forced in through a tube. The secretary of the hospital said the operaton was the most remarkable ever performed there.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21280, 26 November 1940, Page 4
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133BOY’S LIFE SAVED Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21280, 26 November 1940, Page 4
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