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NEW TREATMENT SECTIONS FROM BODIES (9 a.m.) CHICAGO, Oct. 15. The American Medical Association Journal discloses that for the first time in medical history nerve sections from dead bodies have been grafted to severed nerves of living people. The new technique uses special vitamin fortified glue and makes possible restoration of the functions of the peripheral nerves which, when undamaged, supply motion and sensation to the limbs. The journal says the new technique will be particularly useful in treating war injuries. Statistics from the battlefronts show that from one to three per cent of the war casualties have peripheral nerve injuries.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21227, 16 October 1943, Page 4
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