NEW THIGH BONE.
Child In English Hospital Makes Recovery.
Press Association—Copyright. (Received 1.30 p.m.) London, February q. Ella Hunter, aged nine, of Stoke
Newington, who was operated on at the Metropolitan Hospital for osteomyelitis, is now growing a new thigh bone, Ithe surgeon having removed the infected bone-shaft between the hip and the knee, leaving the Preiosteum, which contains 1 the bone cells capable of eventual calcification and thereby forming a new bone. This began to grow a month after the operation and the child’s present progress warrants tile expectation that she will eventually have the normal use of her leg.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 354, 8 February 1937, Page 5
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101NEW THIGH BONE. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 354, 8 February 1937, Page 5
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