TRANSPLANTING ARM BONE.
A remarkable surgical operation has (says the Vienna correspondent ot the Daily Mail) been performed in a hospital at Prague. A dressmaker, named Marie Kubacek, entered the hospital suffering from a disease ia the upper arm. The doctors, unable to cure her, had decided to amputate the limb, wh»n another girl, who. had attempted to commit suicide, died in the hospital. The doctors removed the bone from the upper arm of this girl, and inserted it in the dressmaker's arm between the shoulder and the elbow. The operation Vas successful beyond the doctors' wildest hopes.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 29 January 1914, Page 6
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98TRANSPLANTING ARM BONE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 29 January 1914, Page 6
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