The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-20
Mans Leg Bone Substituted In
 Woman'S Shin

New York, Sept. 20.-Mrs Kathe- rine Mary Neary, a patient in the Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases, at Madison avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-Third St., will be up and about in eight weeks carrying in one of her legs the tibia of a man who was killed by accident and one of whose bones was put in a salt solution and kept in cold stor- age until Dr. Henry w. Frauenthal, a surgeon in Lexington avenue, could get ready to fashion it into a tibia to fit the woman's leg and insert it in the orifice in her skin made by the removal of the old and diseased tibia.
 Dr. Frauenthal expressed confidence yesterday that unless unforeseen com plica tions arise Mrs. Neary will be able to leave the hospital and return to her home in Brooklyn by the mid dle of November and that the opera tion performed on her will be a suc- cess.
 The bone from the leg of the ac- cident victim is knitting rapidly to one in the woman's limb. The mus cles and tissue are healing, and gran ulations in the wound indicate new skin is forming and that after na- ture has done its work the area to be healed by skin grating will be much smaller than might have been looked for in view of the nature of the op- eration and the diseased condition of the woman's leg.
 Mrs. Weary is cheerful, and is hope full that before it snows she will be well again and free from the leg ail- years before pr. Frauenthal took her to the hospital and used a mans shinbone to take the place of the one that caused her all the trouble. The name of the man who was killed by accident and part of whose leg will
 
 revealed.
 The first story of the operation was told on July IA last. Since then na- ture has been working on the wom- ans leg and accomplishing what are regarded as unusual curative effects. tered by Dr. Frauenthal and those associated with him in the case has been the fact that the woman's whole system was affected by the disease from which she suffered, and it was necessary not only to remove the de- cayed bone, but also to fight the gen. eral disease to give nature a chance to make the bone knit and the wound heal. Seemingly that disease is un- der control.
 For eight or ten years before the operation Mrs. Neary had gone from to hospital without obtain ing cure or even lasting relief. Fin ally friends recommended that she go to the Hospital for Deformities and 1 Joint Diseases. She acted on the | suggestion and. pr. Frauenthal was cred the shinbone was decayed to | such an extent it would be necessary | to remove all /of it and put a new one in it's place. Mrs. Weary was ,in- | formed the operation would be an un- usual one and that it would be he xunrr1d from it. The hope she would be re- stored to health. however, impelled | her to consent to gC on the operat- ng table.
 The woman was treated in the in- stitution for two months for the dis | 70 withstand the effects of the opera ton. Meantime pr. Frauenthal | looked about for a piece of live, hu- man bone from which he might carve | ! new tiba. Finally, when Mrs Weary, was ready to be operated on, killed in an accident and that no one mad laimed the body. He obtained permission to remove the shinbone of hat man and as soon as it was ta- md placed in cold storage If the oone had not been kept in a place where the temperature was below the 'reezeing point, it, too, would have lied, the doctor said.
 Dr Frauenthal measured Mrs Nea- rvs shin and then took the bone from cold storage. It was too long ,o fit the womans, so he cut it until 1t was the proper breadth and thick ness. The womans tibia was re- moved, the wound cleansed thorough y ard the bone from the mans leg was put into the patients limb. Then the membrane protecting the bone was seWed into place and bandages