A IVouch surgeon, Dr. O. Lambert, tells in tho Bulletin of the Society of Surgeons how he transplanted a boy's big toe to take the pla.co of a thumb, blown off by the bursting of a. bomb. Tho operation* was really a series of operations extending over many days. A wound was made in tho tod and tho stump .of the thumb, only iin long, applied to it. Tho boy was fixed by plaster bandages in such a way that the hand and foot could not como apart, and gradually as tho thuml> and toe grew into each other, tho too was completely severed. Six weeks after tho grafting a slight growth of tho nerves was noticed, and at tho end oF eight months sensation reached the tip. and the thumb coujd bo moved. Tho boy is now emx>loyed as an apprentice in a motor-car wo walk id
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17015, 11 December 1920, Page 7
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