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Show SURGEON CUTS OUT HIS OWN APPENDIX KANE. Pn.. Feb. 16. Lr. K. O-Kane, O-Kane, chief surgeon at a hospital, op-, erated open himself Tuesday for I chronic appendicitis) He, applied lo- J cal anaesthetli during the operation. I and his only assistant was a nurse who held his head forward that he! might sec. The doctor was propped up on the operating table with pillows He die-j s. c sted the tissues and closed the blood vessels as the kTilfe penetrated the: abdomenal wall, and when the appendix appen-dix as located, he pulled It up and CUti i'. off. Dr. Kane Is t"0 NCars old lie has, been a surgeon 37 years. Several years ago he amputated one of his) own fingers- oo |