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Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1926, Page 1

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FROG-SKIN’S graft. LONDON. Jin roll 6. An unusual operation, believed to be the first of its bind, was performed at West London Hospital, Hammersmith, yesterday, a. piece of frog’s skin being grafted on to a boy’s eyeball. Alfred Hore, aged 9,. of Catlinorroad, Shepherd’s Bush, At., lost a portion of tlie outer surface of one of his eyeballs when a firework which he was holding exploded in his face. . After the accident the boy had had only a blumuLvision with the damaged eye. .

To restore normal sight it was necessary to replace the destroyed film with a membrane of similar delicacy. As revealed by a microscope, a membrane considered suitable was that in tho inside of the lower jaw of a frog. l n a few days it will be possible to tell whether the operation, performed by a visiting ophthalmic surgeon, lias been successful. Frog’s legs skin was used successfully during the war for grafting on slowhealing wounds.

ELOPEMENT AND A FUSILLADE BULAWAYO. Afarch 6.

At the Gwelo (Southern Rhodesia) magistrate’s court a remarkable story was told of tho chase of .an eloping couple by the girl’s uncle and liis son. It was stated that the men, who are named J. and AV. H. Jones, tracked the couple from the Guinea Fowl mine to a camp in the veld. Here, it is alleged, shots were fired, and the girl s companion, a man named Symington, was wounded in tho head. Both the Joneses are charged with attempted murder.