Word: colan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week was a week of torment for a Chicago dentist and his wife. Dr. & Mrs. Herman Colan could not decide whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned...
...kindly people pulled his will to-&-fro, as death came closer to his infant daughter each day, Dentist Colan cried: "God gave her the eyes. Why take them from her?" But he finally sat with a jury of ten doctors and two rabbis, concurred with a decision to have the infant's left eye excised, an operation which was immediately performed...
| 1 |