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Show HOLDS HEART, PATIENT DIES Surgeon at Clinic In Switzerland Cntl. cized by Students for Un- usual Act. Geneva, Switzerland. Tho cantonal government has ordered an Inquiry Into an extraordinary operation performed ( by tho chief surgeon nt a hospital, who extracted the heart from n man named Pasche. , Pnschc shot himself, tho bullet piercing pierc-ing his heart. The surgeon' spoke for 20 minutes to tho horrified students with the live heart in his hands. At tho end of the lecture, when the man was dead, tho students protested to the surgeon, who dismissed tholr objections with the remark that the patient would have died anyhow within with-in a few hours. Authorities are not satisfied with this explanation, while the vlctlroV relatives think of bringing a civil action ac-tion for damages. |