The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-07-03
MARVELLOUS OPERATION
At ROPER HOSPITAL.
SURGEONS SEW UP CASH IN NE.
GRO MANS HEART--PATIENT
DOING WELL.

Five StlCcneS were ldheH III |IS
heart of Richard Bailey, colored, Sat
urday night at the Roper Hospital.
the extraordinary operation being
performed by Drs B Kater Mclnnes,
Kivy Pearlstine and N B Edgerton.
The wounded man was Sunday night
reported to be doing very nicely,
with excellent prospects for his re-
covery. Bailey was stabbed in the
left breast by James Waring at Cal
houn and Washington streets at
about 7 O'Clock Saturday night. A
large pocket knife inflicted very
ugly wound, the heart being injured
by the point of the blade. A hurry
call for an ambulance was made and
Bailey was rushed over to the hos
pital, where the surgeons FASTENED
preparations to operate on him.
Waring made his escape and is being
sought by the police.
The wound was in Bailey's left
centricle. 1t was about an inch in
extent. The man was unconscious
from the shock and from the loss Of
blood before reaching the hospital.
An examination showed the grave
nature of the wound and the sur
geons decided that the only way to
save his life was to sew up the nasty
cash in the heart. This difficult op-
GRAFTON was performed within half
an hour after the man reached the
hospital. 1t was stated that Bailey
would recover, it being expected
that his progress will be quite swift
considering the nature of his wound.
Because of the great amount of
blood which the patient had lost and
the resultant weakness, DR. Mclnnes
decided to inject, through the mans
veins. a quantity of normal salt solu-
ton, to replace the lost blood. After
this was done and the man was made
ready for the operation, the work
done by Drs McInnes, Pearlstine and
.Edgerton was of the swiftest sort
conceivable. One of them held his
finger in the hole of the mans heart
while the stitches were being taken.
in order that the blood might not
flow at each pulsation in the arte-
ries. The operation is the first of it's
kind ever to have been performed
successfully in Charleston and one of
a very small number that have been
performed successfully in the world.
The surgeons did not care to dis
cuss the operation, though they ad-
mitted that it was an extraordinary
one. Unless complications set in
and none are anticipated-Bailey
will leave the hospital as strong and
vigorous as when he entered it on a
stretcher Saturday night. The fact
that the man is alive after an opera
ton on his heart is considered most
remarkable and their colleagues con-
graduated the three young surgeons
on the success of the delicate and
dangerous operation. When the
stitches were taken Bailey was very
weak from the great loss of blood
due to the break in his heart, but in
order to save his life it was necessa.
ry to proceed Immediately, every
minute counting in the fight against
death.
Bailey and Waring had an alterca-
ton over a trifling matter, it is re-
ported, and Waring thrust the knife
into Bailey's breast with evident in
tent to kill. The police were notified
that serious cutting affray had oc-
CURED and, on arrival. found Bailey
apparently dying. -Neacs d Courier.
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