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Show SKIN GRAFTING. Human Flesh Be-in? Attached to u Wounded Man. The Scientific Operation now Being' Performed Per-formed on a Railroad Man Wounded In a Wreck. New York, August 11. Thin slices ol flesh and patches of skin are beiDg grafted to the body of Warren S. Low, a s.vi chniiin on the Hudson River railroad. The patient, who is at the Manhattan Hospital, was terribly in-juted in-juted in an accident at One Hundred and Thirtieth street last June. He was run down by a train, and a section of llesh nearly four inches square was torn out of his thigh. Tlie wound did not readily heal, and to make the t rouble worse gangrene set in. Low was to,; weak to survive amputation of the leg. and so the diseased llesh was cut out. That, of course, deepened the wounds and increased their area. To fill up the orilice, pieces of llesh were taken from the patient's body, but he sue cessl'uily protested against this procedure. pro-cedure. Dr. Bates,", senior surgeon of the hospital, then volunteered to become be-come a martyr to science, and his flesh is betngattached to that of the wounded man. Already two pieces have been taken from his body. The first operation was performed yetersday afternoon, and this was followed by the contribution oi a bit of skin by the heroic doctor. These operations v ill be continued at stated intervals until the hurt has been cured. If necessary, other surgeons siiv thev are' willing to subiect tbem-"selves tbem-"selves to the km'fe."" "" ' Dr. Bates and the switchman were both doing well yesterday and suffering comparatively little. Tlie wounds ol both are healing slowly, and the process of skin and llesh grafting is regarded as a certain success. |
