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Show CONSTRUCTION OF A PAIR OF EARS. A Remarkable Feat In Surgery Performed by a Paris Physician. At the Bicetre hospital, in Paris, the well known surgeon, M. Landry, performed per-formed a curious operation on a work man of Belgian nationality. The Belgian, Bel-gian, it appears, got drunk and was taken tak-en to the police station at Genftilly when in a 6tate of utter helplessness. While he was in the cells another drunkard, a mechanical me-chanical engineer named Machant, waa brought in in a state bordering on delirium delir-ium tremens. Machant was in a terribly gyoMvA ntrvfco nnd Via RttafVpH hiafpllrrar prisoner with extraordinary ferocity, striking him, and, horrible to relate, biting off both his ears. When he came to himself, Machant became very penitent and asked to be taken to the bedside of his victim, who was now in the Bicetre hospital, in order or-der to ask his forgiveness. Dr. Landry, who was there, said: "Should you like to give him back his ears?" "Certainly, " said the man. "Then, " said the doctor, "let me cut a couple of small slips of flesh from your arm, and it can be done. " The man consented, and the doctor did as he had suggested. The pieces of flesh he shaped as well as he could to the likeness of ears and joined them to the wounded places. According to the latest accounts, the operation has been a complete success. London Answers. |
