A Marvellous Surgical Operation.
Pkofessok yon Bbkgmann, of Berlin, Ucim •said to have lately conceived and carried % out an operation which must be considered |j| a marvelloua tribute to the progcese »4 5 | modern* surgery. Two patients WWiB fcroqght to him, one of whom watiffl suffering under an injury whiah sitated amputation of the thigh, 'Ise the other from a disease of the humenMfc||H which called for excision of a part ol that bone. The professor proceeded t<j' operate upon the first of these patients, and vsj h& then removed the diseased the bone from the arm of the second leaving necessarily & gap. This be tually filled with a. portion of th© healbi'.y bone from the amputated leg, and a CQssfal onion waa made. Tee se M pationt was by this clever opevation S! endowed with a serviceable arm, instead 6! $i one which would probably bay© been uao-i ~g| less.—" Cbambeire , Journal." • ' '^S
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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