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Show WHY BE KIND TO HUMBLE FROG Everybody is familiar with that feature fea-ture of modern surgery which aves many live every year by akin graft-iag. graft-iag. When large areas of cuticle are destroyed by .diaeaae, or by burns and other wounds, they are gradually replaced re-placed bv narrow " strips of skin con- j tribnted "bv relatives or friends of the patient, without much inconvenience to I the latfer, beyond the pain of the opera- I tion. 1 The fresh strips of contributed cuticle are bound upon the freshened wound, to which they readily attach themselves under proper antiseptic conditions. It is only comparatively recent that other kinds of cuticle were found to be practicable in such cases. Surgeons 1 l.ave successfully used the thin mem-j mem-j brane which lines the shell of a fresh-j fresh-j laid egg. and quite recently the skin of ! a frog Las been found to answer the , purpose very well. A tetter troin a physician, published in the current number of the London I.ancrt. gives nn interesting account of ' the writer's personal experience in the , use of frog's skin in place of human cuticle. He savsi 'I do not advocate this procedure on lnsutli-ient grounds. I was. so far as I know, for the first time advocated l.v n ('erman physiologist, whose name 1 do nut at the moment remember, in or about the year in an article deaiing with th re' ' ionshi p existing between the cells of the human skin and 'hat of the frog. "I was at the time surgeon to a rcginien' serving in Raluchistan. where an obsticc.te form of ulcer was ex-cee.'.ir.giv ex-cee.'.ir.giv prevalent, so that 1 had ample opportutii'v of giving effect to the suggestion sug-gestion of th" use 'f frog for grafting purposes. Mv firsf use of it was in my own sc. f had iuffere.1 for nearly three ears from obstma'e ulceration of the skin of 'lie foot, winch had re-s.ste.l re-s.ste.l ail treatment and steadily re fjsed to liejl. "'To make a long s'ory shor'. 1 .'Cin ni. I using graf's of frog skin in the middle of Juainrv, l',". and in less than six weeks had a sound covering of hkin. t tne present 1 1 ne--nior. than twenty years having elapsed the scar is perfectly sout.'!, and has none of the I i ' i 1; e r . r, g aid s'lfl'-es.. so often s. e n m cicatrices where numa-i grafts have be-'n us.-d ' 1 n fait, it is impossible wrhou' cry close examination to the cica trix at aii. and f 'lie uherat.-l sur j f-ce rhH so large there ua o-, a bridge if ski'i about two inches i n w hit h left at t he back of the foot . I ' was so eti-oi; riikp .1 . t h resu t 1 that I used frni; skin i". eerv ease of j the kind after that, and at .1 rough esti unite must have used it in some :-u) ,,p I -I'j" ci' s. in with good r.s.iits " |