Cag Bes 
266 On the Re-union of Parts accidentally [Aprit, 
Peace, in order to remove all doubts respecting the authenticity of 
this extraordinary cure. 
Mr. William Henry Bailey, surgeon at Thetford, in the county 
of Norfolk, having read the above history of George Peddie, as 
related by Dr. Balfour, an opportunity soon came in his way of re- 
peating it with equal success. A labourer happening to separate the 
first. phalanx of his middle finger from the rest, applied an hour 
and a half after to Mr. Bailey to get the wound dressed. Mr. Bailey 
washed the wound and the amputated portion, replaced it, and 
fixed it in its place by means of an adhesive plaster and a very 
simple bandage. A week after he found the re-union complete. 
A pulsation was felt distinctly at the end of the finger, and its colour 
_was natural. The patient complained merely of some numbness in 
it. The nail, which had received a violent contusion, fell off 15 
days after. The union was complete in five weeks. The ampu- 
tated finger is as strong and sensible as the others; but the first 
phalanx has lost the power of flexion.—Edinburgh Medical and 
Surgical Journal, July, 1815. 
A Lady at Lausanne having read the account of George Peddie, 
which was published in the Bibliotheque Britannique for May, 1815, 
vol. lix. p. 42, had likewise an opportunity of putting its accuracy 
to the test of experiment. Her cook maid, with a large knife, had 
accidentally cut off a large piece of flesh from her thumb, which 
was laid bare to the bone. ‘The Lady replaced the piece which had 
been cut out, and covered the thumb with a large quantity of raw 
sugar, which with the blood formed a kind of paste. In 24 hours 
the re-union was complete, and the woman was able to go about 
her occupations as usual.— Bibliotheque Britannique, vol. 1x. p. 100, 
September, 1815. 
I must also state a remarkable cure performed by M. Percy, as he 
relates it under the article Entes Animales, in the 12th volume of 
the Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales, while commenting on the 
case of George Peddie. At the battle of Arlon, a soldier, while his 
right arm was elevated, and ready to strike, received such a dreadful 
blow with a sabre that his arm was entirely cut off, except a portion 
of skin under which, fortunately, the artery and nerve had been 
preserved entire. “I did not despair,” says the author, ‘* to save 
the arm, and I replaced it with so much care and precaution that I 
succeeded.” The cure took up eight months; but at last the bone, 
the muscles, and the skin cicatrized completely. The limb re- 
mained Jong feeble and benumbed, and the fore-arm and hand did 
not recover their ordinary size. The last two fingers were paralytic. 
But Thiery, on his return to the department of Vosges, was able to 
occupy himself in the affairs of husbandry, which had been his first 
employment. ; 
In the year 1804 a curious work on this subject was published at 
Milan by Mr. Joseph Baronio, entitled Degli Innesti Animali, 
which I know only by the account of it given by the editors of the 
Bibliotheque Britannique, vol. Jix. p.59. It relates a number of 
