A Note on Skin Grafting

Some Notes on Skin Grafting

Mode of operation.?A small piece of the skin was taken up by means of an ordinary dressing forceps, and with a sharp scalpel it was cut, or rather shaved off, care being taken, if possiable, to avoid drawing blood. The piece removed was never more than an eighth of in inch in diameter, aud wa3 generally divided into two or more smaller portions upon the thumb nail, each division being placed se...

Skin-Grafting

Note on a Skin Reaction in Pneumonia

The present paper describes the results observed when pneumococcus antigen, prepared in the same way as for the anaphylactic experiments described in the preceding article, 1 was injected intracutaneously into a series of pneumonia patients, and into controls. The same method has been employed by Clough, 2 who reached the conclusion that these injections had in general an irritant effect, and t...

Skin Grafting of Burns

This book outlines the essential points of care which have proved of benefit in treating a large series of patients with full-thickness loss of skin and requiring skin grafting, at the Washington University Medical School Children's Hospital and Barnes Hospital, during the course of a long period. In the first chapter, the authors stato : ' In the extensive literature on burn's, there has been ...

Lower Third Nasal Skin Grafting