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Neurosurgeon dies

Friday 31 December 1993 00:02 GMT
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Professor Edward Hitchcock, the neurosurgeon who recently performed a life-saving operation on a Bosnian boy, died aged 64. He pioneered the technique of foetal brain transplants for Parkinson's disease.

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