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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16539, 24 September 1921, Page 8

The ease of a girl eleven years old, who had a gap in her humerus (the bone of the upper part of the arm) filled by a boiled beef bone at the Paddington (London) Children’s Hospital, is described by Dr C. W. Gordon Bryan in the “ Lancet.” A piece of bone cut from the leg of an ox, boiled for fortyeight hours, shaped, and drilled with holes, was inserted into the gap, and secured with pegs. The muscles were stitched round it. A plaster cast waa applied to the limb. In three weeks the beef bone was firmly united, and the patient left the hospital a month later. A few weeks after the girl had full use of her arm.