Will Have A Silver Jaw

WILL HAVE A

SILVER JAW

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A Lady's Jaw Bone Removed

At The Hospital.

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A PERFECT OPERATION

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When Conditions Are Favorable 

an Artificial One will Be Put In.

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At the surgical clinic at the University hospital last week, an elegant operation, from a surgical point of view, was performed. A lady came here from the southern, part of the state. She was afflicted with a cancer of the jaw bone. As soon as conditions were favorable Dr. Nancrede and Dr. Darling sawed the jaw bone from the inside of the mouth on a vertical line running nearly to the point of the chin. The half of the jaw was then "unhinged" at the ear and that portion was cut away from the flesh on the inside of the mouth.

Now there will follow a more delicate operation. It will be to make an artificial jaw bone for the lady. As soon as the conditions become again favorable a silver plate, the exact shape of that portion of the jaw bone taken away, will be hinged on at the proper place near the ear and, at the point of the jaw it will be riveted on to the portion of the bone that remains. To all outward appearances the lady will be the same as if never troubled with cancer of the bone.