Early Fat-Removal Operation Performed in Kinston, May 17, 1925

Anti-Fat Operation Made

Kinston, May 16—A patient in Parrot Memorial hospital here is convalescing after an unusual operation. Twenty-seven pounds of fat were removed from the abdomen of a woman whose 325 pounds avoirdupois were burdensome to her. Dr. Albert De.K. Parrot of the hospital staff, performed the operation. The patient is “doing nicely,” it was stated at the institution yesterday. An incision was made and a layer of flesh eight inches wide laid pack to remove the fat. A “pad” weighing 27 pound was taken off, and the patient was “sewn up again weighing less than 300 pounds.” She came here from a down-country point.

From page 4 of The Durham Sun, Sunday morning, May 17, 1925.

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