MARVELS OF SURGERY
NERVE-SPLICING OPERATION. DESCRIBED BY NEUROLOGIST. Pra» JumocfatioD— By Telegraph — Copyrig OTTAWA, August 13. A message from Toronto says that Dr Ivy Mackenzie, neurologist at Glasgow University, stated at a meeting of the British Association that surgery had reached a stage where severed nerves could be spliced. Surgeons were able to join nerves in the case of damage, and the cords might be cut, lengthened, and spliced again in cases of short fingers. In such operations it was possible to join the cut ends so that the exactly corresponding nerve fibres would grow together again; but it was found that precision was necessary for the success of repair operations.—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19251, 15 August 1924, Page 5
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