The Marvels of Surgery.
A remarkable operation has been performed in the hospital by Drs Harris and Horsfali at Newcastle. New Sou,th Wales. *^ >| A young man received a severe gunshot wound in the thigh in August last, which destroyed the great sciatic nerve with the surrounding muscles and sineW3. Two gun wads, several grains of shot and a piece of trousers cloth were removtd from his. groin. The wound healed, but he was unable to use the leg, which became paralysed. Tea weeks ago he was readmitted to the hospital, and the doctors procured and killed a sheep. While ths animal was still warm they removed about six inches of its sciatic nerve, and patting the patient under the influence of an anresthetic, made an inoision in his thigh, and intro« duced and stitched in the nerve from the sheep. Galvanic treatment was applied till the beginning of December, when the patient was able to leave the hospital. He can now get about with the as* sistance of a stick. There is a little difficulty in raising the foot, but be s rapidly recovering the full use of the limb, and suffers no pain or inconvenience from the borrowed aerve. — Press Association.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 January 1896, Page 2
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202The Marvels of Surgery. Manawatu Herald, 25 January 1896, Page 2
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