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Identifier: interstatemedica2419unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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d others have little faithin claimed successful results. It is interesting to refer to the workof Karg11 and of Leo Loeb12 who have transplanted epidermic graftsfrom a white man on a granulating wound of a negro, and viceversa from a negro on a white. They claim that the epidermicgrafts took and the surface healed up with the result that after 12to 14 weeks the dark epidermis from the negro implanted in thewhite lost some of its pigment, while the white epidermis on thenegro, was gradually getting dark from pigment. In the same wayMaxwell transplanted epidermis from a white on a granulatingwound of the cheek in a colored man and noticed that gradually itwas turning dark. This, however, is not confirmed by the experi-ments of Reverdin, Johnson, Smith, Mauel, who claim that in theircases after the recovery no change of color had taken place in theepidermic grafts. Epidermic grafts have been taken from dead bodies a short timeafter death, and implanted on granulating surfaces. Bartens,15
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760 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL Iwanowa14 claim good success; Gluck15 states that the grafts takenfrom a corpse immediately after death, where death was not dueto infectious disease, take just as well as when taken from a livingperson. Sick, Scholz15 and Wagner17 with homoplastic grafts did not suc-ceed and they obtained results only by means of autoplastic trans-plants. Koenig implanted skin grafts, which he had preserved ina salt solution for some time, on a wound from a burn, but withoutsuccess. When he covered the wound with grafts taken from thesame person, he obtained good results. According to Lexer the ending of homoplastic epidermic trans-plants can occur in five ways: (1) gangrenous decay; (2) appa-rent healing, then, two or three weeks after, sloughing under pusformation; (3) apparent healing, then, three weeks after dryingof the transplants, purulent discharge, formation of cicatrix likeunder a crust; (4) apparent healing, then slow cicatricial substitu-tion; (5) progressiv

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