REMARKABLE CASE OF SURGERY.
NERVE CARRIED IN TAXI.
The following remarkable case of nerve surgery (says the Observer) is reported from one of our military hospitals: — A man had part of the fleshy portion of his arm shot away, carrying with it tour inches of the nerve necessary to control the hand movements. The surgeon rang up several hospitals on the telephone till he heard of what ho wanted, (he amputation that afternoon of a healthy limb. The limb happened to he a and it was amputated in the afternoon. No sooner was it cut off than four or five inches of practically living nerve were removed from the calf, placed in a saline, hath and rushed by taxi to the other hospital. Here the patient was already under an anaesthetic. The wound in the arm was opened with a lancet, the ends of the indispensable nerve quickly found, and the circuit re-established, as it were, by means of the first patient’s four inches of filament. To-day the man is in a fair way of regaining the full use of his hand.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1676, 17 February 1917, Page 1
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182REMARKABLE CASE OF SURGERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1676, 17 February 1917, Page 1
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