Severe Injury to the Wrist-Joints; Recovery
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An Afreedie thief was caught by some villagers in the act of house-breaking, and summarily dealt with as follows, and afterwards sent in by the police for treatment in the civil station. The right hand vsas severed from the forearm just above the wrist joint, apparently by a single blow from a sword. Radius aud ulna irregularly cut through and amputation higher up rendered essential; the left wrist joint was opened, the whole of the flexor tendons, with the radial and ulna arteries divided, and the dorsum of the hand drawn back by the extension, so as nearly to touch the forearm.
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