Her own skin invariably did better than
foreign grafts. In ten months she had almost completely
recovered, and sight and hearing had returned. Figure 191 shows
the extent of the injury, and the ultimate results of the
treatment.
Schaeffer also reports the case of a woman working in a button
factory at Union City, Conn., in 1871, who placed her head under
a swiftly turning shaft to pick up a button, when her hair caught
in the shaft, taking off her scalp from the nape of the neck to
the eyebrows. The scalp was cleansed by her physician, Dr.
Bartlett, and placed on her head about two hours after the
accident, but it did not stay in position. Then the head was
covered twice by skin-grafts, but each time the grafts were lost;
but the third time a successful grafting was performed and she
was enabled to work after a period of two years. The same
authority also quotes Wilson and Way of Bristol, Conn., in an
account of a complete avulsion of the scalp, together with
tearing of the eyelid and ear. The result of the skin-grafting
was not given. Powell of Chicago gives an account of a girl of
nineteen who lost her scalp while working in the Elgin Watch
Factory at Elgin, Illinois. The wound extended across the
forehead above the eyebrows, but the ears were untouched.
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