BONE-GRAFTING.
THE BIRMINGHAM CASE. OPERATION NOT UNCOMMON. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. By grafting a lOin piece of bone obtained from a butcher into the spine jf a patient who, as the result of tuberculosis of the spine, had been semi-para-lysed and bed-ridden for two years, a young Birmingham surgeon is reported to have effected a permanent cure. Such treatment is quite common, and has been administered in New Zealand since 1915. It was introduced by Dr. Albee, an eminent American surgeon, and it has become technically known a3 "Albee's bone graft," and in the United States has been used since 1912. Hence, although the English operation was reported as if phenomenal, Dunedin surgeons say it was not so.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 11
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