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Show AN EXPERIMENT. SBTsIeal OperaUoa Tor the En- praftldS ol Dos' Eoae Into a Man' " MINNIC AND JOHNNIE HAVE A ROW. Whit a "Hcllm or Iljpaoll.m" Imi;Infd About Uentlt awl Other. St Telexraph to ha Sn"J BEnAIlUABlX OFEBATIOJT. A Dos's Les Eririel Into Boy-s kec NEW York, Kov. 13,-One of the roosi remarkable surgical operaUons ever attempted was performed on Sundav at Blactwell'a Island. A portion" of a living doR'a foreleg was engrafted into a boy'a leR to take the placo of the bone. The youth and dog lie on a cot. In tenor twelve days, if thedog'a bone unites with the loj'a, tbo operation will be complete and tho surgeon's knife will cut the last links of flesh by which the dog is now connected with tho hoy. riould the operation be successful it will provo a great boon to mankind, as well as another Illustration of the wonderful results that may bo accompUshei by surgery. sur-gery. After tho bo 's leg was prepared for the reception of the bone a black spaniel, under the effects of an anastbetlc and encased In a plaster of Paris cast, was brought Into the operating rooms. The right foreleg was free and also his head and tail, but the rest of hU body Is Immovable. Immov-able. The surgeon cut down into the dog's leg at a point where the doe's knee might be. Tho graft must be nourished and to insure nutrition the keenest knowledge of the distribution dis-tribution of arteries in canine anatomy anato-my Is essential. The head of the ulna, one of the bones of the Jug's forearm, was sawed off. One and half Inches below be-low thU a nutrient artery Is given ou, with Its numerous ramifications throughout the bony tissues. The next division of the bone was an inch and a half below. In his ban-is the surgeon held a piece ol none an Inch and a half long, separated from the bony parts of tne dog. but connected con-nected by the flesh and those life-giving life-giving ducts, the arteries. The dog was placed alongside the leg of tho boy, his head toward that of the boy. The piece of tone was inserted in the boy's leg and the skin and flesh of the dog's leg sewed firmly to the sides of the wound and proved anlUepllcally. Then came a CrmstrarP'ngot the dog to the boy's leg. This was done by broad bandages and plaster of parls. The vocal chords of the dog were cut and this operation, a painless pain-less one to the dog, will relcave the boy from the annoyance of whining. whin-ing. Besides, frequent Injections of morphine will prevent the canine from becoming restlets. "That Is all we can do for this lad at present," announced rrofessor Hilps. "should the dog live I shall remove him In ten or twelve days and if muscular contraction has not been too active and if the circulation has been fully competent, we ehall here find a bone formation In a man's leg producing results that could not be hopeJ for jlherwlse." |