Show A difficult operation the operation of amputating the leg of deuben birkin was performed wed afternoon by dr pike assisted by doctors simmons hardy and smart the perio or clinine of the bone had been so stripped from the bone and the flesh so mangled that the leg had to be amputated as high up aa possible unless it wag removed at alie hip joint the operation was a very difficult one and the nervous shek received by the boy places him in a very precarious condition the utmost care and patient nursing will be required to pull him safely through |