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Show his father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald, supplying the cuticle. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald each had taken from their limbs more than forty patches of skin, which were placed on the boy's burns. Granulation at once began, and when the last graft was made, fourteen days ago. the entire burns had been covered cov-ered up. The healing is now almost completed, com-pleted, and the boy will suffer no permanent perma-nent effects from the burns. LAD'S LIFE SAVED BY SHIN GRAFTING CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 1. Two months ago pronounced' by surgeons burned beyond the possibility cf recovery, aix-year-old Julian McDonald today Is playing about the hospital at Fort Russell Rus-sell and will be discharged from the Institution In-stitution In a few days cured. Pk in grafting Is responsible for the fact that he is alive. ' ... . . On February 20, In company with two other boys, the youngster blew up a barrack bar-rack at Fort Russell with gunpowder. The explosion set fire to his clothing and he was horribly burned from the ankles to above his knee, three-fourths of the skin of his legs being destroyed. While H was not hoped that nature could 1 repair the injury, even with assistance, akin grafting was undertaken as a flnl resort. |