Ricketts speaks of bone-grafting and the
use of ivory, and remarks that Poncet of Lyons restored a tibia
in nine months by grafting to the superior articular surface.
Recently amalgam fillings have been used in bone-cavities to
supplant grafting.
In destructive injuries of the skin, various materials were
formerly used in grafting, none of which, however, have produced
the same good effect as the use of skin by the Thiersch Method,
which will be described later
Rodgers, U.S.N., reports the case of a white man of thirty-eight
who suffered from gangrene of the skin of the buttocks caused by
sitting in a pan of caustic potash. When seen the man was
intoxicated, and there was a gangrenous patch four by six inches
on his buttocks. Rodgers used grafts from the under wing of a
young fowl, as suggested by Redard, with good result. Vanmeter of
Colorado describes a boy of fourteen with a severe extensive
burn; a portion beneath the chin and lower jaw, and the right arm
from the elbow to the fingers, formed a granulating surface which
would not heal, and grafting was resorted to. The neck-grafts
were supplied by the skin of the father and brother, but the
arm-grafts were taken from two young puppies of the Mexican
hairless breed, whose soft, white, hairless skin seemed to offer
itself for the purpose with good prospect of a successful result.
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