Show amputation NO A LONGER NECESSARY 4 wonderful demons Denton st I at foils it at As meeting at salt lake dr rich has returned from the state medico meet inert tit at salt lake whole about ono ona hundred and membris of the association besides foul or fivel five I 1 specialists from down cast who came especially to load lead papers before the association among the visitors was di albee of nony new york city who performed several surgical opera operations tionA in ili the diffrient hospitals of the city foi tho benefit of tile the surgeons sui geons of tho the state dr albeas work Is the th last word in bone grafting ting by which most of the kamputi dons will be avoided in tho furuie wherever the patient can get to a hospital in which the necessary instruments can be afforded the cost of the instruments make them prohibitive to the general practitioner but they will be installed in the salt lake hospitals Tol to j illustrate the process 01 the operation we will say that the femoral or thigh bone has been injured necessitating si amputation amMi tation now in order to avoid amputation the injured bone is taken out requiring we will say eay the removal of a portion eight inches anches in length the dr splits and lays open the lower leg strips the tibia and removes a section or strip of it eight inches long and this is linser I 1 inserted ted into tile the injured leg where nature within two or orl three hours exudes a glue which con cements lents all tho the new connections as a cabinet maker does two pieces or of wood all wounds are clo ed and in ft a few months nature joins th tha grafted bonea and supplies aupp lles choin with a now new marrow marro and the bone grom around and envelopes tho the marrow exactly as the original femer was even the tibia partakes of the form and matuie of the femer and the patient walks again on a mund well leg |