BIG-TOE THUMB
SURGEON'S GRAFTING TBIUMPH. A French surgeon, Dr. 0. Lambert, tells in the Bulletin of the Society of Surgeons how lie transplanted a boy's big too to take the place of a thumb, blown off by the. bursting of a bomb. The operation was really a. :-erics of operations extending over many days. A wound was, made in the tee, and the stump of the thumb, only J in. long, npplied to it.. The boy was fixed by plaster bnndnges in such a way that the hand and foot could not come apart, and gradually, as the thumb and tee grew into each oilier, the tee was completely severed.
Six weeks after the grafting a slight growth of the nerves was noticed, and at the end of eight months sensation reached the tip and the thumb could be moved. The boy is now employed as an npprentice in a'motor-car workshop. His walk is said not to have been affected.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 7
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160BIG-TOE THUMB Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 7
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