SPLICING NERVES
stage of SURGERY
(By Eleotrlo Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Call* Association.)
OTTAWA, Aug. -13. A message from Toronto says, that Dr. Ivy Mackenzie, neurologist at Glasgow University, stated at a meeting cf the British Association that surgery had reached the stage where severed nerves could he spliced. Surgeons ..were able to join nerves in case of damage, i In such operations it was impossible to join cut. ends so that the exactly corresponding nerve fibre would grow together again, hut it was found, that- precision was unnecessary for. the success of repair.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 August 1924, Page 5
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