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CALLENDER, George William (1830 – 1878)

1830 – 1878

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1873 CE

#11565

Removal of a needle from the heart. Recovery of the patient.

"The first occasion on which a surgeon deliberately operated on an injured heart was in October 1872. This followed a brawl in a public house in East London, after which a 31-year-old man could not find a needle he us…