. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal . y with no results from the dustings used so Iconcluded that I either did not understand the Hodgen plan ofgrafting or it would not answer in this case. I also tried theplan that Dr. Agnew suggests of grafting, vide page, 124Vol. I., of his late valuable contribution to surgical science;that is by placing small pieces of the reb mucesum on the sur-face without regard to which side is placed down, not morethan one fourth of these would take hold, but by removingthem with a slender pair oi forceps and curved scissors andplacing the fresh side down, bei
. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal . y with no results from the dustings used so Iconcluded that I either did not understand the Hodgen plan ofgrafting or it would not answer in this case. I also tried theplan that Dr. Agnew suggests of grafting, vide page, 124Vol. I., of his late valuable contribution to surgical science;that is by placing small pieces of the reb mucesum on the sur-face without regard to which side is placed down, not morethan one fourth of these would take hold, but by removingthem with a slender pair oi forceps and curved scissors andplacing the fresh side down, being careful to flatten out theinverted edges so as to allow no curling under, which they so 108 O&iGiNAL Contributions. [Augnst, readily do after romovel, foar-fifths of all will grow if the sur-face is properly prepared to receive them, the cut progressedfrom now on very favorably, so that by the 1st day of Feb. 1883the surface was entirely cured. In all I practiced grafting tentimes at intervals of 10 and 12 days removing from 10 to 15. tejUACKUf/TJiSC. Fig. 1. Skin Grafting. grafts at each sitting. The circumference of the limb keptincreasing in size up to some time in March last, since then it hasremained about the same as the cut shows. He has been ujjand around by the aid of a cane since the middle of Februaryand is now able to attend to his duties as watchman ; the limbgradually growing stronger. So far as the future usefulness o!the limb is concerned time will only tell whether this extensivescar will partake of the nature of all cicatrical unions and thejiby contraction impair the nutrition of the leg, below produc-ing varicose ulcers and other concomitant evils, also deformity 1883.] Drake.—Eeduction of 109 by flexing the leg upon the thigh I cannot determine at presentI believe however that cicitnzation by the aid of grafting modi-fies to some extent the resulting evils of large scars as is evi-denced by the gradual growth of the limb in this case, he s
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