MARVELLOUS SURGICAL FEAT
The ingenious but simple operation whereby a new thumb was supplied to a man whose hand had been amputated, has just been described in a German medical paper. The surgeon cut open the stump, split the radius for about two and a-half inches, and inserted a piece of muscle and fat cut from the thigh; this he folded over to make a soft pad. To the piece of bone cut off the radius he attached the flaxour tendons, making it movable. The new thumb is weak in'its extension movement, but can be bent so strongly that with it and the stump the patient can lift such objects a?. chairs Six months after the operation the thumb is still improving in dexterity.
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Taihape Daily Times, 29 October 1917, Page 3
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124MARVELLOUS SURGICAL FEAT Taihape Daily Times, 29 October 1917, Page 3
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