Punch,  31 (1856), 232.

Secretary and Surgery Extraordinary

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Surgery, Industry, Hospitals, Cultural Geography, Race


    Discusses an attempt by the secretary of the Distressed Needlewomen's Society to avoid bringing some 'unreal distress into unnecessary notice' in a legal case. Reveals that the case concerns the failure of an operation, conducted in an ophthalmic hospital, to remove the eyes of a dressmaker. Believing that no operation to remove eyes can ever be anything other than a 'failure', wonders whether the operation was conducted in a Dublin-based hospital—a possible reference to the stereotype of the Irish as mentally deficient.



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