SURGICAL SCIENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2578, 19 January 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

SURGICAL SCIENCE.

A .startling advance in surgical scienco (says an exchange) has been made by Dr. Maximilian Klein, a German military nurgeon. The particulars aro given by the professional journal Memorabilieu. A man accidentally cut oil' his left groat loe iu the middle of the lirst joint. The severed piece remained hanging to thefoot; but the connecting skin was scarcely thicker than a thread. JJr. Kleiu seivod on the fragment, dressed it with iodoform, and had the satisfaction, in twenty-two days, of iinding the wound healed and the toe perfectly sound and llexible. ijaieourasrcd by the unexpected result iu this case, Dr ICleiu was induced to apply the same treatment again. A reeruil, iu order to disablo himself and escape from military service, deliberately cub oft' his forefinger with an

iixo ut the second joint. The finger cud was loi-t, iiud could not be found until hilf an hour had elapsed. It was then oiil.l and blue. Nevertheless Dr. Klieu s wed on the severed end and bound it up in iodoform gauze. As early as *.he second day it was evident that, cifculttion had been pntiiilly re-csta'ulished throughout the finder, and in six weeks the man not only left the- hospital, but was doing the very rili« drill whiuti he had hoped to shirk. The finder was, in fact, us serviceable as it bud evrr been. These stories ruaJ almost liku extracts from the expi..its of 15-iron Munchausen. Tlmt, they are ehi'onieled in Meinorabilieu is, however, uviduMiii! hi iliL'ir tvuih. English surireons will not be so unwilling to credit them as they would hiivo been iu the days before the marvellous discovery of the properties of iodoform.