Triumphs of Surgery.
Surgical grafting, still in its infancy*, has extended with the development of antiseptic methods, and now includes tissues of all kinds, parts of organs, and even entire organs. Professor Garre cites the successful transplanting of pieces of skin as large as the palm of the hand, of the tip of a toe upon a maimed finger, of pieces of veins and arteries, and of kidneys. Bonegrafting has become of great importance. The thyroid gland of a woman was, as was stated some time eince, transplanted upon the spleen of her four-year-old idiot child, and the astonishing result was that nine months later the child was developing mentally and learning to walk and talk. Muscle, sinew, nerve, and teeth graftings have, failed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 76
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124Triumphs of Surgery. Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 76
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