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Show Cut in Two to 8avs Life. Toronto surgeons are proud of ao unparalleled feat performed in No-vsmber No-vsmber Inst at the Toronto hospital. The patient, a laborer, was suffering from spreading gangrene which affected af-fected both legs and must Infallibly have proved fatal In a very short time. The only hope was to cut off both legs. It was not a mere case of amputation. Tho whole of the thighs had to be removed, tho hip bones being separated at the upper Joints and the uerve branches destroyed. The man was. in fact, cut In halves. The operation was a brilliant success. |