Leale cites the successful use of common
warts in a case of grafting on a man of twenty who was burned on
the foot by a stream of molten metal. Leale remarks that as
common warts of the skin are collections of vascular papillae,
admitting of separation without injury to their exceptionally
thick layer of epidermis, they are probably better for the
purposes of skin-grafting than ordinary skin of less vitality or
vascularity. Ricketts has succeeded in grafting the skin of a
frog to that of a tortoise, and also grafting frog skin to human
skin. Ricketts remarks that the prepuce of a boy is remarkably
good material for grafting. Sponge-grafts are often used to
hasten cicatrization of integumental wounds. There is recorded an
instance in which the breast of a crow and the back of a rat were
grafted together and grew fast. The crow dragged the rat along,
and the two did not seem to care to part company.
Relative to skin-grafting proper, Bartens succeeded in grafting
the skin of a dead man of seventy on a boy of fourteen. Symonds
reports cases of skin-grafting of large flaps from amputated
limbs, and says this method is particularly available in large
hospitals where they have amputations and grafts on the same day.
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