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Show TRANSPLANTING LIVE FLESH. - A few weeks ago the wife of Mr. Wilson, of Philadelphia, was severely burned by her dress igniting while she was standing with her back to the fire. How her husband saved her is narrated in the following paragraph: After several weeks of ineffectual treatment, the physician decided that in order to save her life it would be necessary to transplant live flesh to the parts where the tissue had been destroyed, and asked Mr. Wilson if he was willing to furnish the flesh from his arm. The husband at once replied that he was, and four pieces of skin, a quarter of an inch square, were cut from his arm and placed on the back of Mrs. Wilson, who soon began to improve and is now in a fair way of recovery. |
