Operation on the Heart.
Gerard Francis Buncombe, nineteen, an undergraduate of Cambridge University, has been impaled on a fence surrounding the Druidical remains near Maidstone while mounting the ancient cromlech. He was removed to West Kent Hospital, where Dr Travers performed a wonderful operation. Two pieces of bone had been driven into the heart, causing a wound 1 1/2in. long. The wound was sewn up, there being nineteen stitches, and the patient bore the operation extremely well.
And I thought you had to be intelligent to go to Cambridge. Do be careful and try to contain yourself around the annoying railings.
Spotted in the Carmarthen Weekly Reporter, 29th June 1906 (and a million other papers).
Cripes! I do vaguely remember those railings being quite high.