Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — A REMARKABLE OPERATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A REMARKABLE OPERATION.

A Dog’s Leg Engrafted on a Boy’s to Supply Missing Bone. Dr. A. M. Phelps, professor of orthopidic surgery in the University of New York, assisted by Drs. James D. Kelley and C. I)T Roy, made one of the most remerkable surgical operations ever attempted at the Charity Hospital od BlackwelJ’a Island recently, of which a New York paper says: The operation consisted in the engrafting of a living dog’s foreleg into a boy's leg to take the place of the bone that was lacking. Just above the boy’s ankle bone tissue was entirely wanting, and the foot dangled in the air, being held in place only by muscles and integument. It is to ' supply the bone wanting in this space that the operation is being performed. The dog is under the effects of an anaesthetic. His right foreleg and head and tail are free, but the remainder of his bodv is immovable. The boy and the dog lie on the cot bound together, and a peg connects the bone taken from the dog’s leg with the boy’s. In ten or

twelve days, if the dog’s bone unites with the boy’s, the operation will be completed, and the surgeon’s knife will cut the last links of flesh by which the two are now connected. Should the operation be successful it will prove a great boon to mankind.

THE GRAFTING PROCESS.