Wonderful Achievements of Surgery.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 487, 9 July 1890, Page 3

Wonderful Achievements of Surgery.

At Saturday’s sitting of the Surgical Congress at Berlin, Professor Cluck, of Berlin, gave an exhibition showing a most valuable advance in surgery—namely, the successful substitution of catgut, ivory, and bone freed from chalk, for defects in bones, muscles, and nerve sinews. The juices of the body are sucked up in the inserted material, thereby establishing the junction of tho separated ends, without any shortening of the part. He presented the cases of patients in whom therehas been an insertion of from six to ten centimetres of catgut, to supply defects in the leaders of the hands, to which complete mobility had been restored. This case has previously been impossible. In the case of another patient .Professor Cluck removed a tumour from the thigh, causing a considerable defect in the bone. He inserted ivory, and no shortening ensued. In another case he removed a large piece of nerve in the groin and inserted catgut, and the functions remained completely satisfactory. These are considered wonderful achievements,