A WONDERFUL CURE.
The S>!.hirii Mail says:—‘ The par ticnlars of a truly marvellous case whirl has been treated at tiro Gonlboimi (New South Wales) Hospital have he n published. Gn May 24 last year a youth named James Siddons, who had been partially paralysed since ids birth, fell into the tire and received terrible injuries tor.is head. The nose was reduced to ashes, and the eyelids and sca'p presented a sickening spectacle, so terribly had they sultered He was received into the hospital on the day he received the injuries, and three weeks later his scalp came off, leaving tiie bare skull exposed. In course of time a new noso was .actually formed, a fresh scalp, provided with hair, replaced the other, and about a fortnight ago the frontal came away, and underneath was a new forehead covered with llcsh To complete this wonderful statement, it has only to bo added that the pati nt regained th > use of oho of his par-lysed-hands, but by what agency is not known.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1412, 10 May 1886, Page 3
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171A WONDERFUL CURE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1412, 10 May 1886, Page 3
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