Show 10 Wonderful Operation Adds Chapter To Surgical Skill N example ot of extensive skin graft gratt grafting AN A ing that has no equal in surgical annals of the west has just been per performed performed formed at the Saints hoe hos hospital pital when square inches of de denuded flesh on the left leg ot Joseph E ETaylor ETaylor Taylor a foreman at the tho Bamberger coal yard living at South Seventh West were practically covered with skin taken from other parts ot of his body The Tho operation which has haa extended over several just b been n corn com by Dr R H R H of Salt Lake and the patient Is said to be near recovery Mr Taylor was taken Ill three months ago with what was diagnosed as erysipelas the germs getting In their work chiefly on his left leg The pe peculiarity of the disease and the effect of the Infection of the leg attracted the attention of physicians The germ which Is commonly accredited wIth causing eruptions of the skin and flesh took away the tho skin ot of the entire leg leavIng the muscles and flesh bare The leg was swollen to the size of the mans body and what started with a slight abrasion resulted in a serious af affair affair fair Indicating tha that the leg would have to be However the swell swellIng swellIng Ing of the limb was ivas taken away and when it had resumed its normal size Dr Brownsfield decided to graft skin upon it Instead of usIng the knife and making his patient a cripple for life Ufe Taking small pieces ot of skin from all parts of the mans body Dr Brownsfield Browns Brownsfield field literally covered the leg The length of the leg is 18 thirty In Inches hes and with an average circumference of ten the area of square Inches is obvious s However Instead of grafting the skin upon the leg and coverIng It entirely the physician left spaces about an Inch apart knowing that i when the member began to heat heal the ski skin would grow together No anaesthetic was administered and while the pain was almost unendurable Mr Taylor withstood the tho operation Pieces of his skin were lifted from hIs body and grafted upon the injured legat leg legat at Intervals stretching over a period of several weeks and when the final grafting was completed the leg was in good shape and the patient In faIr way to recovery I Physicians who have watched th the skin grafting have been amazed at tie thc success of the long operation and those who advised amputatIon have become deeply In Its ultimate of et |