SURGERY MARVEL
BONE FROM. OX’S LEG FITTED TO GIRL’S ARIL ■ Tho case of a girl eleven years old who had a gap in her humerus (the bone of the upper part of tho arm) filled by a boiled beef bone at the Paddington Green Children's Hospital is described by Dr C. W. Gordon Bryan in the ‘Lancet.’ A piece of bone cut from the leg of an ox, boiled for forty-eight hours, shaped, and drilled with holes was inserted into tho gap and secured with pegs. The muscles were stitched round it. A plaster cast was applied to the limb. In three weeks the beef bone was '‘firmly united, and the patient left the hospital a month later. A few weeks later too girl had full ,usa of /her axm*
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Evening Star, Issue 18035, 1 August 1922, Page 6
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130SURGERY MARVEL Evening Star, Issue 18035, 1 August 1922, Page 6
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