Show marvels of surgeons art thanks to pasteur and lister the surgeon of to day can do some aston ashing things in the way of grafting one alece of living tissue on another A remarkable case Is furnished by a doctor who writes to the british medi cal journal his patient had a finger bitten clean off by a pig through the shaft of its middle bone he put the finger m his pocket among a lot of tobacco dust and other rubbish and wall ed with a friend six miles to the doctor who demanded to see it the finger had been cut off for about two hours the doctor applied antiseptics to the end of the finger after wiping off the tobacco and ashes and dirt similarly cleansed the stump that re on the patients hand put the two together applied a couple of splints and the patient uses his fin ger to day such are the healing pow ers of the healthy body and now a frenchman is advertising his willingness to sell his nose and ears for similar purposes to those who have need of them his prices are to be moderate at first and there is little doubt that there will be offers skin grafting of course is now qu commonplace it is done in our atals every day the skin to aeple that destroyed by a burn or ott baues may be taken from a healt portion of the patient s own sk from another human being from rabbit the abdomen of a young pup or from various other sources operation is of great value in cou less cases similarly part of a nerve may ha been destroyed and it is imp ossil to bring the two ends together su cases have been successfully treat by joining the ends with a piece nerve or of a spinal cord from a n bit sir william macewen of blasg has had great success in lonegra leg suppose that inflammatory d ease has completely destroyed as often may the enatt of the in such cases a piece of bone arc one of the lower animals or a pie of healthy bone taken from a recent amputated humia limb amputated accident may fill ane gap |