Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — A Triumph of Surgery. [ARTICLE]

A Triumph of Surgery.

Thel ujfßifvels and triumphs of modern surgery are vividly illustrated by a case treated by Prof. Nussbaum of Munich and described in the Gartenlaube Katender. Eleven years ago he took charge of a boy so malformed and crippled that he obliged to crawl about on all fours. Nine serious operations were performed, four crooked bonds were broken, three stiff joints forcibly extended, several sinews out through, and nerves stretched. Weights were then attached to certain muscles, and, by means of mast age, baths, ointments!; and electricity so much progress was made that in a few years the boy was able to walk erect with thp aid of crutches and a special apparatus fastened to his feet. Subsequently he was able to throw away his apparatus and exchange his crutches for a cane, and to-day, after eleven years of treatment, he is a healthy and vigorous youth, who cannot only walk like other young men, but dance, ride on horsdback, etc. —American Register, Paris.\J