An Operation for Utilising the Middle Finger as the 'Trigger' Finger
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Not infrequently it happens that as a result of an injury or infection a soldier has to be invalided out of the Army on account of the partial or total loss of the index finger, or of its impaired mobility through ankylosis of the smaller joints. Though the injury is often trivial and the man is perfectly fit otherwise, not being able to grip the rifle and pull the trigger efficiently, he is useless as a soldier. To lose an otherwise healthy man simply f?r disability of the index finger is a great loss to the Army. It is an economical loss as well, because the man has to be pensioned off. I have, on several occasions, done the following operation for these men and am qujitte
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