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Show , 1 1 ii tnrbimecs from bacterial sources uro reduced re-duced to the lowe t minimum. Th" thickness of these dt'liciiio Jiuuiiin i pi m -ti-rs probably does not cscifd (me-; (me-; sixtieth of an inch, and the n-sultin'; i hi'iiioriliuge is not more than what one ! fci'S on a slight abrasion of the skin, or lit may lie compared to tin- sanguineous j oozitigoncgetsl'rom toot-amest Umsorial ; attention.- Boston Herald, Skin GrufLiiii; liy Machinery. Saturday morning, at the Massachusetts Massachu-setts General hospital, a little instrument, instru-ment, invented by Jr. Jli.vler, wonderful wonder-ful in its simplicity, const rucleil sons to separate quito largo portions of epidermis epi-dermis from the subcutaneous tissue, was used for the first time. The patient had been ciheri.ed. and had undergone an operation for tho removal of a cancerous growth from the left brc'tst, and the wound thus made was quite au extensive one. Tho instrument was applied to tho anterior portion of the right thigh, and three strips, about an inch wide by six inches long, wero taken oil and transplanted to the exposed ex-posed surface of the breast. The operation opera-tion of removing tho skin and transplanting trans-planting it to its new quarters did not occupy more than about six minutes. A very few days will suflice to restore tho denuded surface of tha thigh to its normal condition, leaving few traces of the reparative process to which it has j contributed, mid, other things being j equal, the surface from which the cancerous can-cerous tumor has been excised will heal over by first intention, thus saving thi patient from n prolonged a::d paint'!: jieriod of convalescence. ( If course, every precaution is taken, by the UsiJ of steril-izitigproeessesand steril-izitigproeessesand antiseptic solutions, to render the ojieration thoroughly aseptic, o that the ckauces of inflammatory dis- |