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Show Cigarette as Anesthetic In Appendix Operation PHILADELPHIA. Sidney Bol-din, Bol-din, 23-year-old sailor, says he underwent a major operation in a Japanese prison camp with only a ..idc-zitto "in stifle the oain." A ship's cook first class, Boldin said he suffered two attacks of appendicitis ap-pendicitis while in enemy hands at Macassar and that a Dutch surgeon a civilian prisoner of war was forced to operate without using any anesthetic. "They tied me to a table," he said. "When the steel cut into my side boy, that really hurt." Mr. Boldin said the pain was so Intense he passed out. The sailor passed three and a half years in the camp. "We ate every rat, cat and dog that came within a stone's throw of us," he said. |