TOE AS “FOREFINGER”
RARE OPERATION. A man was shown to tli<- Leningrad Surgcom.' Society who has :* too as -forefinger" of hi-- right hand. ITy was a patient of the Vreden Traumatological Institute, on whom Professor M. I. Kusilik had performed the extremely rare operation of "transplanting" n finger. Tim man had lost his right forefinger and nt the. Vreden Institute the second toe of his left foot was removed and’ transplanted on to his light hand. Tito operation, states R.t liter, was so ‘••iicerssfnl that the man can now bend hie new “fore113 Wishe”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 11
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94TOE AS “FOREFINGER” Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 11
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