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Show ETHIOPIANS MADE WHITE. Doctors Say Thli rin Re Done Through the Transplanting of Skin. Frovided a victim could be found for the skinning operation, surgical skill is equal to the feat of turning a negro's-1 negro's-1 skin permanently white. The question ques-tion of the transposition of color in the 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. Fge of Reading, Pa. The experiment of Dr. Fge was. made for the purpose of healing a, wound on the leg of a white man. and it U : L!.. ... .... 11 11, m-ut-u 111 UUS 11, as llll mat 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 ns white as if tho 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 bello the color of her I hair. j A physician, in seriously discussing the matter, said that the original cause of the difference in the color 0f 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 ji"c linn, nit nan: color of tho skin does not depend on geographical geo-graphical position, nor even altogether on radical purity, by tho fact that tho extremes of the chromatic scales are found throughout the whole ne'ro domain. e |