SKIN KEPT ALIVE IN CLASS JAR.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 31. , A departure m surgical operations which will- be -witnessedr-by a- number < of leading surgeons will.. bey-made. at a ; I hospital here to-day. Twenty square" < inches of human skin, procured from volunteers at the Rockefeller Institute ' of New York, will, be grafted on the body of Harry Stabler, who was burned iii an explosion here several ...months. ' ago. ... Tlie skin is m a glass jar, kept m a condition known among; medical men as latent life. During the operation the skin will be warmed to the same temperature as that of the patient. Only one experiment along the line has been found successful. At a medical school hero tho tail of -a rat was severed, and was sent to the Rockefeller Institute m- • [ a latent state. The tail was later grafted on another rat,' thei life-giving quali- v ties being produced by the warmth of the last rat's body.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13300, 9 February 1914, Page 10
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