II. ON SUTURE OF NERVES, AND ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF TREATMENT BY TRANSPLANTATION OF TENDON

THERE are few problems more urgently needincg solution at the present romlent tlatn those inivolved in thle treatmiient of limlbs disabled by injuLries inivolvitng nerves. Tlle conditions vary anid are often very comnplex. The nerve umay be irretrievably injured beyond all hope of sutrle; it rinay be c'&tangled in cicatricial tissue; one or more of the im1uscles it supplies may have suffered grave lesions, varying fromn partial to comnplete destructioni; tlle tentidons or miuscles tllemselves mnay be bound dowvn by adlhesions,