Notes on transplantation or engrafting of skin / by John Woodman.

  • Woodman, John, 1837-1903.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Notes on transplantation or engrafting of skin / by John Woodman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    skin from her own arm and engrafted them in the manner previously described, only placing ordinary adhesive over instead of Lister’s lac plaster. On the fom’th day I removed the plaster, and with it one of the grafts; the other two were growing well, hut in August the leg was attacked with erysipelas, which proved very severe and caused a portion of the islands of skin to slough, and stopped all progress for a month; however, by Novembe;: 1st the upper part had nearly healed, and on November 4th I engrafted two pieces of skin taken from my own arm. These I treated with the lac plaster. These doing well, on November 30th I transplanted two more pieces from my own arm. In this case I may remark that the cold weather appeared to act adversely to the growth of the new skin. Bee. 26.—This wound is three quarters healed, and I have no doubt that fresh engrafting in the spring will complete the cure of this case. Case II. Pope, Maria, aged 66, admitted in the hospital wards of the workhouse, August 20th, 1869. Has a very large ulcer extending all round the leg except a small bridge of skin at the back ; says it has been of many years standing; has been in theDevon and Exeter Plospital, &c., but the wound has never healed beyond a certain point. After trying various plans of treatment.