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Show GRAFTING BY WHOLESALE. Record Breaking Operation Performed by a Kansas City Surgeon. Local surgeons discussed with much interest yesterday the account which was telegraphed from Chicago to The Times of the skin grafting operation being performed per-formed upon Mrs. W. W. Blake at the Mercy hospital. The dispatch stated that 72 square inches of cuticle had been taken from Mr. Blake's body and successfully suc-cessfully grafted upon his wife's armq, and added that this was the largest quantity of skin ever sacrificed by one person for the benefit of another. The latter statement is possibly correct, cor-rect, but a similar operation of much greater difficulty and magnitude has just been performed at the Missouri Pacific hospital in this city by Dr. George Hamei The patient is a man named McCarthy, who was injured recently iu a railway accident, and Dr. Hamel found it neces sary to remove no less than 25S square inches of skin from various parts of the man s oooy ana gran it upon ms mjurea legs. Each piece of skin was about three inches long and from one to two inches wide. The operation has been successful success-ful in every respect, and although McCarthy Mc-Carthy is still in the hospital he is detained de-tained there by other injuries than to his legs. The quantity of skin used in this case is said to be much greater than any other known to surgical records. McCarthy has been visited by many physicians, and his case has excited much interest. He will be discharged from the hospital within a few days. Kansas City Times. |
