BIG-TOE THUMB. LONDON, Oct. 3. A French surgeon, Dr O'. Lambert, tells in the Bulletin pf the Society of Surgeons k>w he transplanted a boy’s big .toe to take the place of a thumb, blown off by the bursting of a bomb. The operation was really a series of operations extending over many days. A wound was made in the toe and the stump of the thumb, only Jin long, applied to it. The boy was fixed by plaster bandages in such a way that the band and foot could not come apart, and gradually as the thumb and toe grew into each other, the toe was completely severed. Six. weeks after the grafting a slight growth of the nerves was noticed, and at the. end of eight months sehsation reached the tip, and the thumb could be moved. The boy is now employed as an apprentice in a motor-car. workshop. His walk is said not to, ha,ye been affected.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1920, Page 1
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