Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1913 — GROWS-TISSUE ON ARM'S BARE BONE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GROWS-TISSUE ON ARM'S BARE BONE

A wonderful bit of modern surgery, said to be without a parallel, was performed by Dr. W. M. Lawrence, Jr., surgeon of the Overlook hospital at Summit, N. J., on Charles P. Walters, whose arm was caught in the cogs of a press and the flesh“ripped from elbow to wrist. Dr. Lawrence decided on a desperate experiment in an effort to save the man’s arm. The abdomen was the only place with flesh enough to supply that torn from the arm, a’nd an inoision was made there and the arm laid within. The dkln was then stitched over and the arm imprisoned In Walters’ abdomen. Two weeks later the arm was released and it was found that enough skin had grown to the torn parts to permit of the discharge of the patient from the hospital. Walters and his daughter are shown in the picture.