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Show Unnecessary to Graft Skin. When much skin Is destroyed In hums, n common resort is skin graft, applied either In smnll Isolated patches to grow gradually' over tho surface, or In pieces up to two or throo Inches Fqunru to cover n largo portion or all of tho wound. At a recent medical meeting. Dr. 13. O. Heck of Chicago en 1 1 ml nttcntlon to a process of culture by which sit In may bo rondo to grow without grafting, oven over largo surfaces. sur-faces. As tho wound bonis tho granulations granu-lations nt tho edgo of tho spreading fitudi skin plnco an ctovntcd barrier In Uh wuy raid If thoso granulations ar remnxed ns often as every 21 hours tho patient's own skin Is given a cluuiiMi nnd may bo watched spreading over tho entire surfaco. A protective covering of paraflln. often promotes th replacement of skin without grafting. |