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Show CL'F.ES SICK SPINE BV GRAFTING BONE The Tribune says- i e-' i ol 'u vertebra' .f hli .-pinni column - together and to om bon HugLe , : i olorado 2" years ot ge, 1 re ' ' - 1 1 roes lM.vp.iai tion tuberculosis of tjfl H si rip ' 1 1 bone ( lit fmnv iD in n H s ' ' ! 'hn jit cunning of m" 1;, I'M'.-.- m; ... back into om in l be i ;'"r Is that the joints be- tween Lhi ertebrae may have absolute ab-solute rest, fur m no other way can I Die ravaging "f the tubercular germ be stayed The usual method I i ,i ment r'-s' for to I f ai Dieted joint by securing it agat&M mo ement with cast- ..'j mechanical i 1 dtice,s. The treatment is one Of n wet rj months' duratiou, how-e how-e er, and has b d t- r ior a hborter and more direct one. j The si" - m i H ; ol New York in fixing the vertebrae by erulting a long piece of none to affl the diseased sections of the spinal column has attracted the nttention of lh surgical orld in the past two pars v llttU mbi liian a year ago lr A I Hosni' i p- rrormed th! operation upon a Greek iihorr at the Holy Cross hospital with suck success that the mat now entirely recovered frim his afflltcion and abk to do hard work. The operatloa i.pon Hughes, the present patient, Kl which was perlormed n ween ago, givns promisf' of being as succeMful as the one upon the Greek. C It is the opinion of Dr Hosmsr that the treatment will become con- i H mon for most If not all forms of P Fott's disease or tuiierculosls of tbe M sp.ne Dr Hosnifi il' r.-d n pi- 'U per before the members of the Stat" Medical society at their annual ban- I quet at the Hotel Utah tomorrow uight devoted to the subject of bone pathology. In which be will treat upon his experiences in grafting lo fi the vertebrae In treaUng Pott's d'sease. He was loth to talk when he learned that the s.-.-ret or Irs remarkable re-markable operation had neen learned h ;i reporter anil uou; co onlylej far as to make sure that 'he news gatherer should have somet h i ng of I Clearer notion of what '). op.-,-afioB - tia n he hud -a in-n h ipproached ihe surgeon on the subject. |