Salt Lake Times | 1890-09-01 | Page 6 | Frog Flesh Vs. Human Flesh

j Frog Flesh ts. Human Flesh. An interesting operation of flesh grafting, graft-ing, which was one of the discoveries of M. Paul liert, has been performed at the great gun works in Paris by a surgeon named Dubousquet-Lalmrdicre. A workman work-man bad his foot badly burned by mol- ton iron, destroying the skin over a sur-i sur-i face of about eight inches by.four. The I surgeon took four strips of flesh from the ! thigh of a young man and as many from four different frogs, transferring them j to tho wounded man's foot. l)y great ; care the wound healed in eleven days. The cicatrice obtained by tho frogs' skin was soft, elastic and inodorous; that from the human tlswh was much harder, producing . irritation at, many points. The result of the operation is of great importance, showing tho superiority of frogskin and flush for serious wounds where both skin and flesh have bean torn or burned away. St. Louis Republic.