PHANTOM CORN
LABOURER'S SURPRISE
When John Bundy, of Harris street, Ultimo, had his right leg amputated at Sydney Hospital, he thought that a bad corn on his right foot would trouble him no more, cays the "Daily Pictorial."
But that particular corn has lately been giving him evory possible variety of torture.
Bundy, who was a labourer at the City Council power house at Ultimo, was caught in a coal-grab, and escaped from its steel jaws with his log badly shattered. ...,-'
The injured limb was amputated, but he still suffers pain from tho old corn that has worried him for years. This is not uncommon, and is duo to scars forming on the severod norvo terminals in the stump. These nerves, which ordinarily conveyed pain sensations to the brain, continue to do so until the brain is accustomed to (he new conditions.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 17
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