A MARVELLOUS OPERATION.
32 FEET OF WIRE IN AN ARTERY
Oct. 6.. Robert Campbell, formerly employed as an engineer by the Salt Lake Railroad, who was told a few weeks ago by a physician, that he could not Jive until Christmas, to-day watched and assisted four surgeons at the country hospital as they cautiously coiled thirty-two feet of aluminium bronze wire into the walls of his aorta artery. It was a daring, skilful operation,, performed without the aid of anaesthetic. in an effort to save Campbell s life strengthening the walls of his aorta—the largest artery in the body. When the last inch of- the wire had been placed within the artery walls Campbell, who had felt every movement .made by the surgeons, stated that • the operation was almost painless. It is believed by the operating surgeons that Campbell will recover and live many years, regardless of the fact that the wire will remain coiled within an inch of his heart. The size of the w'ire when coiled like a spring is nearly as large as.a'small football.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2677, 6 December 1909, Page 7
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177A MARVELLOUS OPERATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2677, 6 December 1909, Page 7
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