The outcome was all that could be desired. The puppy-grafts took
faster and proved themselves to be superior to the skin-grafts.
There is a case reported in which the skin of a greyhound seven
days old, taken from the abdominal wall and even from the tail,
was used with most satisfactory results in grafting an extensive
ulcer following a burn on the left leg of a boy of ten. Masterman
has grafted with the inner membrane of a hen's egg, and a Mexican
surgeon, Altramirano, used the gills of a cock.
Fowler of Brooklyn has grafted with the skin from the back and
abdomen of a large frog. The patient was a colored boy of
sixteen, who was extensively burned by a kerosene lamp. The burns
were on the legs, thighs, buttocks, and right ankle, and the
estimated area of burnt surface was 247.95 square inches. The
frog skin was transferred to the left buttocks, and on the right
buttocks eight long strips of white skin were transferred after
the manner of Thiersch. A strip of human skin was placed in one
section over the frog skin, but became necrotic in four days, not
being attached to the granulating surface. The man was discharged
cured in six months. The frog skin was soft, pliable, and of a
reddish hue, while the human white skin was firm and rapidly
becoming pigmented.
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