Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1915 — FORCEPS SURGERY SAVES M. D [ARTICLE]

FORCEPS SURGERY SAVES M. D

Dressing Operation Wound, Wife Finds Towel Sewed in Seven Months Previously. • Toms River, N. J. —Dr. J. Edgar Todd was operated on December 7 for kidney trouble at the Long Island Medical college. The other day Mrs. Todd was dressing the wound, which had never healed, when she saw something white projecting. She took hold of it with a pair of forceps, and after an hour and a half extracted a surgeon’s towel, about ten inches square. It had been left in the body at the time of the operation. Since the removal of the towel Doctor Todd has shown improvement