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Show imuiixri a m:(iiio white. Al'ltlll)I.I,rillAi;l MllMINTWIIIClt lAMJIta THAT WAV, The problem of the tramplanllng ol color In the cuticle of the while and black rana baa Uen given n local and ptcullar Interest by an experiment iu the grafting of the skin of a negro upon a white man, ust ivrformod by Dr. John 1'gouf lteadlug, Pn. The exs'rlment of Dr. Kge was maJo for the purwu of healing a wound ou the leg of a whlto mau. Xnt only did It do this, hut as thn wound began to heal Dr. Kge was surprised sur-prised to notice that the thirty parlklr of black rklu transplanted weregradu ally losing their color, aud by the time the wound had entirely luuilod the near aurfate u as as white as though the cuticle I longed by nature to tbe snot to which It was transplanted. This result was surprising to the doctor, doc-tor, Iccau.e medical men have hitherto hither-to di-clartd that colored akin, whenver transplanted, would retain Its color. It seems probable now, then fore, that tho theory of aklu-grufttni-niay undergo a change, aud that In the future one may be able to thniigo one's akin aa ta.lly aa thn "leojanl can change his Swts" or the Parl-lun belle tlio color of hi r hair. Akin to thl. ex-ti ex-ti rlmeut la the succiss with which the Indianapolis doctor a few weeks ago grafted an entirely new cuticle ou a man who hail bten skinned almost from head to foot In n boiling ti r vat, and the oratlon on the Chit ago Mason to whom some SIX) of his fellows gave latches or their skin, the greater part of Ills hating been cut away. Dr. J. V. Hhoemaker. the eminent dermatologltt of Philadelphia, In eptaklng ot tlie result of Dr. Lge's i x-ptrlraont, x-ptrlraont, said that In his opinion n negro's skin grafted upon a white man would probably lose Its color, the process of cutting distributing the cells containing the tolorlng matter. Dr. II, C. lloeuulng, demonstrator of anatomy at tho Medlco-Chlrurglcal College, also holds thla opinion, but at the same tlmo says tt Is im-ierative that the particles of skin transplanted should Im aery minute, aa In tlie case of Dr. i:ge's eierlmeut. Dr. Iloeun. Ing alio said that while colonel skin transplanted to a white man will lose Its color and bucome while, while skin grafted on a mgro would never liccume uhuk. Prom fill It will besten that although a negro might tosslbly bo turned white, those whlto -wnons who are so enamored of tho soft, glossy line, tuous epidermis of the negro ns to desire a change ore debarred by nature from Indulging In this luxury. .Vtw Turk HurhL |