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On May 9 1933, an article in The Times headed ‘Railway Engineer’s Suicide’, reported that a 57-year old man had shot himself ‘while of unsound mind.’ As the Coroner explained,
(He was) Suffering from profound depression caused by physical disability arising from a chronic disease of the hip-joint, which disabled him, which was getting worse, and of which there was no hope of a cure.1
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Anderson, J., Neary, F., Pickstone, J.V. (2007). Total Hip Replacement: Introduction, Sources and Outline. In: Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596238_1
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