A case in which the spinal cord of a rabbit was successfully used as a graft in the median nerve of a man / by Mayo Robson.

  • Robson, Arthur William Mayo, Sir, 1853-1933.
Date:
1896
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Credit: A case in which the spinal cord of a rabbit was successfully used as a graft in the median nerve of a man / by Mayo Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted for the Author from the British Medical Journat^ Ootober sist, 1896. \ A CASE IN WHICH THE SPINAL CO RABBIT WAS SUCCESSFULLY USED GRAFT IN THE MEDIAN NER OF A MAN. By mayo ROBSON, F.R.C.S., Senior Surgeon to the General Infirmaiyat Leeds: ProfesS in the \ork.shire College of the Victoria University; and I Professor, Koyal College of Surgeons of England. The following case, which I have hitherto not reported/htjT which I inteiided to describe at the I'.iternational Medical Congress m Berlin, will, I think, be found to present several points of interest; and the delay in reporting it will, I trust, have enhanced the value of the present paper, since I am able to give a description of the case after an interval of six years. In February, 1889, I read a paper before the Clinical Society of London on a case of nerve grafting, which was, I believe, the first case in which the operation had been carried out in the hurnan subject. Although it was difiieult to explain the rapid return of function in the arm after the operation, there could be no question as to the result, which, from a report received three years afterwards, had become perfect. In Julv 1890, my colleague, Mr. Atkinson, read an extremely interest- ing paper on the subject at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association m Birmingham, in which he described two cases of his own, and at the same time mentioned two tfr.^?K^'^ ?°J^ W^^-'i'S' a of ^lch were at the pS rLovery!''^'' progressing satisfactorily towards com- The case I have to describe is as follows: W. R., aged 20 a gardenf^r, was admitted to the Leeds Infirmary under my Mpf.kTv'^'n^TF 'k^^' ^^^^^g been sent to me by Mackay, of Hornby. He gave the history of having ieven ^sTon on^V^' ^ '^y-^' ^'^^ produced a deepTn^ cision on the lower and inner part of the upper arm the brachHl artery being divided. At the time S^nim-y^'sur! 5f a dTvTd^d, ' ''^y ligatured, and thJ two ends bv L^mmitHnn ''n'''^''^^ Sutured. The wound healed slowly wL-iH w V.^Hv,^^??!'''^^^^ to the infirmary, the patient Tf iVr ^ t P^ health. There was a scar on the inner aspect ?rthein^iS'ff>'^''l^ from a point 2 inches above S to U)e iiuifr side of the olecranon process, obliquely upwards and forwards for about 3 inches to the ii ner side of Krpro- minence of the biceps. The circumference of the r Jht for^ arm was two-thirds of an inch less than tLt of U.e that ab ent the thenar'f^- '^'^ ''yPothenar emiUnco w^s aosent, the thenar eminence was much atrophied, and th«5