REMARKABLE OPERATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9419, 15 April 1909, Page 2

REMARKABLE OPERATION.

Doctors of the Georgetown University Hospital witnessed a remark* able operation performed there by Dr. George Tally Vaughan, of this city, on Georg A. Kelly, aged 29. The bones of Kelly ’s knee were so badly diseased that Dr. Yanghan decided on amputation. lathe hospital was a man abonfi to die. Dr. Vaughan obtained permission from the dying patient’s family to remove the left leg in the event of death, and it was decided that the knee of the dead man should be grafted to the leg of the living sufferer. The transfer was duly made. The bones were riveted tbgether by slender strong wire and the most delicate phase of the operation, .that of joining the ligaments, caused the surgeons to work as they probably never labored before. Every tissue, tendon and muscle was joined and the bones fastened together. Kelly is said to be improving rapidly.