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Show ETHIOPIANS MADE WHITE. i Doctor Say This can Be I).m Through, the Transplanting of Kkln. Provided a victim could be found for the skinning operation, surgical skill is equal to the feat of turning a negro's I skin permanently white. The question ques-tion of the translation of color in tho. cuticle of the two races has been given a peculiar interest by an experiment In the grafting of the skin of a negro upon a white man, performed by Dr. Ege of Reading, Pa. The experiment of Dr. Ego was made for the purpose of healing a wound on the leg of a white man, and if it succeeded in this it was all that was expected of it. Not only did it do this, but as the wound began to heal Dr. Kge was surprised to notice the thirty particles of black skin transplanted trans-planted were gradually losing their color, and by the time the wound had entirely healed the new surface was as white as if the cuticle belonged by nature to the spot to which it was transplanted. This result was surprising sur-prising to the doctor, because medical men have hitherto declared that colored color-ed skin wherever transplanted would retain its color. It seems probable now, therefore, that some of the theory of skin grafting may undergo a change, and that in the future one may be enabled to change one's skin as easily as the Parisian belle the color of her hair. A physician, in seriously discussing the matter, said that the original cause of the difference in the color of the skins of different races is still a matter of some dispute. Some authorities author-ities on the subject maintain that it is attributable solely to climate. In contradiction con-tradiction to this, however, other authorities prove that the dark color of the skin does not depend on geographical geo-graphical position, nor even altogether on radical purity, by tho fact that tho extremes of the chromatic s.'ales are found throughout the whole negro domain. |