SEVERED ARM SEWN ON

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3113, 18 June 1917, Page 7

SEVERED ARM SEWN ON

REMARKABLE. OPERATION ON' A SOLDIER.

who is working afc the Royal Hint.was the subject of one of the most remarkable operations ever performed. It WBS necessary to take one of his arms off, and the .surgeon responsible for the opeiation cut Gome bone out of the amputated limb, put tho arm on again, eewed the tendons together, and now the ana is go "well that the patient can use it, Hid is, able to lift ;i cup of tea. slowly to his mouth. Tho difference between the two arms 19 that the injured one is about 2Hn. fihortcr than (he other.

Tho man is David Ballanline, a. son-in-la.w of Mr. James O'Gradv, M.P., ami a former lance-corporal in the Bast Sin-, reys. Up was severely wounded in Hip fluting at loos in September, 1!)l!i, ami lay out on the ground without water or food four days and four nights. A'shell fragment bad smashed a nart of • his upper arm bntivcen the ehoulder and the elbow and cut into his body, driving out a. portion of his rib'. German mKcliinegflns rattled over him as ho lay. Sometimes he was unconscious; Subsequently he was taken U" by Hie Hermans and made prisoner, .and sent, inlo (leruinny. There he was in hospital for a. (irac, and eventually was sent homo wilh :i batch of wounded prisoners ami brought to MillbanV Hosjatal.