Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — ABLE TO WALK NEXT WEEK. [ARTICLE]

ABLE TO WALK NEXT WEEK.

Remarkable Recovery of Boy Who Had Foot Cutoff In Mowing Machine. —— YThe doctor attending the little Thurlow boy who got his leg severed in a mowing machine at his grandfather John Beecher’s in Jordantp., recently, states that he will be able to walk next week and will have almost, if not quite full use of the injured limb. .The writer read of an almost exactly similar case a few days ago in a St. Louis paper, where a two-year-old boy got his leg chawed off, at about the same time the Thurlow boy was injured, in a reaper, it banging by only one tendon and a piece of the skin. The doctor was for amputating the limb at once but the mother would not hear to it, and finally the father joined her in protesting against amputation until an effort had been made to save it. With no confidence whatever the doctor sewed the foot on and in a few days was astonished to note that the severed parts were knit- ■ ing together. Like the Thurlow ! boy, this little fellow will be out next week practically as good as ever, and the doctors of that locality consider it one of the most remarkable cases on record.