Remarkable Operation.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 136, 6 May 1893, Page 4

Remarkable Operation.

A medical correspondent sends to the I Edinburgh Evening Dispatch an ac- j count of a remarkable operation recently performed in one of the largest London hospitals, and which has had a very satisfactory result. It seems that an artist, about 30 years of age, some five years ago fell and severely injured his right arm. It was operated upon at the time, and the result proved that either the surgeon, by misadventure, had divided the nerve or it had been torn by the fall. At all events the injured arm never recovered its former appearance, but wasted and became quite useless. It was a serious misfortune to a working man, and it was decided to open up the arm, and explore, with the result, as at first surmised, that the nerve was partially divided. Two fresh ends were made, and a live rabbit having been obtained, it was rendered unconscious, skinned, and the two sciatic nerves extracted and stitched to the two ends of the man's arm. The wound was then stitched up, and the patient placed in bed. It is now seven weeks since the operation, and the result is most favorable. The man has perfect power iv the right arm, -which is rapidly regaining tho original bulk, and he is able to follow his employment.