853 66 years who became paralytic in the course of treatment. Of the remaining 14 cases, only one failed to derive benefitnamely, a woman of 59 years, excessively obese, suffering from multiple dry arthritis, who died within a year of operation without regaining her ability to walk. The 13 other patients are walking, three of them still improving. One of these, operated upon three months ago, already walks so well that reasonable doubt might arise as to the existence of a fracture. Another,

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... ated upon four months ago, cannot yet dispense with a stick. The same is the case with a woman who has fractured her graft.