Remarkable Operation.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 326, 30 May 1894, Page 2

Remarkable Operation.

■ ■: ■ ■'■>■:,/- ;,:■.■, 0. .:. tA 'V;^fj! *j At theßicetre Hospital in Paris, the weU-knoWn fsugeon, . M. Landry, has pjiribrmedarourions operation >on a workman ot Belgian nationality.f The Belgian, it appears, 1 got drunk a short time ago, ' and was taken *to the.j?otice station at Gentilly when ma state of utter helplessness. "'While he wa? in the cellw ftnothf*^drim*^iffifl t " ~j;y ; jtnftf hltTiWfftl in a state bordering on delirium&sniens* Machant was in a terribly e^cse| state, and he attacked Ms fellow £ prisoner with extraordinary ferocity^ striking him, and, horrible to relate* biting off both his ears. When he came <to himself, ' Machant became- very f penitent, and asked to be taken to the^bedside of his victim, who wasiiow, inihcrßicetre Hospital, in order to ask bis forgiveness. Dr Latd-T, who was there, said, 3kou'd ycu like to give hunt back his ears ? " "Certainly," said the man. '* Then," said the doctor, " let me cut a couple of small slips of flesh from your, arjn£ and it can be done." The. man cocsented, and the doctor did as he had suggested, The pieces of flesh he^shaped as well as he could to the likeness 6f a pair clears, and joined them to ?th» wowided[placeg. According .to the latest account the operation had been a complete success.