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Another hospital view

We read some horror stories about operations that were performed here. Apparently one prisoner had tried to escape, but was shot in the shoulder in the process. He was taken to the infirmary, and operated on without anaesthetic. The surgeon took 10 MINUTES to amputate his arm, and then sealed the bloody area by searing it with a boiling hot frying pan which he'd been heating on an open fire. Can you imagine the pain? Sends shivers up our spines!
....you won't be surprised to learn that the ghost tour wasn't scary.....

February 12th 2006
Hi lovely readers - here's our last Taz blog. So, there are two things that this blog is about: 1) Visit to the Tasman Peninsula (bottom right as you look at the map) to experience the Port Arthur historical penal site (convicts, not mens' bits). 2) Trip up the top of Mount Wellington on a sunny but windy day. In keeping with our recent tradition of being Blog Lazy, we're mostly doing ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Port Arthur

Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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