SURGICAL TRIUMPH
IMPROVISED SKULL-BONE. An extraordinary surgical operation has been successfully performed on a wounded soldier at Sunderland Hospital. When at the front, a piece of shrapnel struck him on the head and dislodged a piece of bone. The Sunderland surgeons toolcs strips of bono from the patient’s shin and filled them into the skull cavity, which was Sin by 4in. The new bone knitted with that of the skull, and the patient rapidly recovered. He is now going about, is in high spirits, and save for the' scar on the head, which his hair is covering, shows no sign of the injury he had received.
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Southland Times, Issue 17653, 10 February 1916, Page 6
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106SURGICAL TRIUMPH Southland Times, Issue 17653, 10 February 1916, Page 6
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