Show u Nerve splicing or dead nerves to life is Is' Isone one of Vie tse latest achievements of surgery And though the process is still in its icy It is believed In ia medical circles that the operation will one day become as common common common com com- mon as trepanning Three cases have already resulted In perfect success The cure of paralysis and palsy is brought about by means of of this pro pro- cess In the case of young children palsy Is brought about by some accident acci acci- Cent dent of at birth which compresses the tho nerves which radiate from the spinal cord and if in the upper part of the body produces paralysis in hi tho the arms The technical name for this disease Is ia birth palsy Paralysis in old people or those advancing advancing ad ad- in years is sometimes due to this accident though it more usually comes from the the- decay of the principal I nerve cerve I Two children victims of birth palsy have been experimented upon with such success that the patients are as aswell aswell aswell well as the most anxious mother could wish Dr Clark one of the operating physicians has recently explained before before be be- fore an an audience of medical men exactly exactly ex ex- how the operation is performed The nerves which supply motion to the affected limbs are severed from as close to the spinal cord as possible and then grafted to the nearest trunk line If the delicate threads unite and the paralyzed parts take on fresh life lire Naturally the operation Is exceedingly difficult because the nerves which radiate radiate ra ra- diate from the upper part of the tho spinal cord are so great in number and cross and each other Inso in inso inso so complex a manner Another difficulty difficulty difficulty culty lies In the fact that anaesthetics must mutt be used sed sparingly for the longer the patient is under their influence the tho h harder it is to follow the nervo nerve threads New York Herald |