Nearly Killed Her
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Headache Cure Nearly Killed Her
A native woman from isle of Pines, some 40 miles south 0 f Noumea, was recently sentenced to two months gaol (sentence suspended) for having practised medicine. the native custom °t treating headaches by "bleed mg”—making an incision in the w lt h a vi6C6 -hnl bottle — the woman had the bad « ™in of her valient.
The luckless patient was saved from bleeding to death only by prompt air transport to Noumea Hospital where blood trans fusions were necessary .