New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-10
Notary Pubic City and county OF Yew-York.
CURIOUS SURGERY AT BELLEVUE HOSPITAL
TIE AMBULANCE SYSTEM - EXPERIMENTS IN
SKIN GRATING.


SKIN GRATING.
Bellevue Hospital, in this city, is the most
important school OF surgery in the country. 1t IL the
only hospital here where the ambulance system has been
adopted From every police station there is Geographic
communication with the hospital, and each accident
curing the city teegraphed to the hospital when
one OF the four five ambulances in waiting mme'
diatey starts the place. The result is great saving
in time suffering and often in life. On the arrival Of
the ambulance the patient receives prompt attention
from the who accompanies it, and the sufferer
is then comfortable bed to the hospital
The ambuances do quick work and on a recent Occa-
sion workman employed at the Roosevelt Hospital,
who had fallen from and injured his back, taken
on the receipt OF dispatch from policeman who had
observed the accident to Bellevue Hospital before the
attendants at Roosevelt Hospital knew Of his suerings
Occasionally the public hear through the newspapers
and the medical journals of skin grating" This is
surgical operation, but it is
in the hospitals and in private practice Prof A. b.
Mott Of Bellevue Hospital has introduced novel
practice Some time ago IrishwOman OF this city was
severely injured by the explosion Of Kerosene lamp, by
which her clothing was fire and her right arm
and right breast down TO the stomach fright
fully burned. She was removed TO Bellevue Hospital
and placed in Dr. Motifs ward Her was under
treatment for months. and the patient incur
able. At the same time man named McClenahan was
the Hospital whose leg had been amputated at the
thigh. Dr. Mott considered that he might use the
healthy skin from the limb in effort cure the
disabled wOmaD He resolved To test the operation OF
grating" Eighty-Dne pieces Of integument, each
about lilo OF an inch square, were cut IRON the amp
tated limb before tine natural warmth had passed of
II, and by gentle pressure applied TO many points OF
the great open sore on the woans breast and OF
these 50 pieces 30 adhered and became part Of her
system. The cure is now perfect, and the man who
gave OF his body 10 heal the woman is also well.
The practice OF grating is looked upon with favor
by eminent surgeons Sometimes the skIu Is obtained
for the purpose from the body Of "a person willing TO
render so much service to another but frequently
il cut away from the healthy parts of the patients own
body In tins case, however, Or. Mott skin from
an amputated limb, and thus effected q cure Old and
obstinate ulcers and burns will yield to this treatment
when they Will not TO any other. After the "sOughing
from surface wound has taking place, Nature proceeds
III the work OF restoration by graduating process over
the whole OF the wound. thin delicate pehcle
OF skin growing around the healthy border OF the
wound the examinations; and, If the
process Is perfect the is also perfect. But the
border OF the wound may have sufficient vitality to
form the ccariX which is necessary 10 healing, it
may be thai the wound is too large be 1t is
in these that grating" is OF avail Every sepa
rate fragment OF skin grated into the system center
vitality from which tne necessary process OF cicatTza
ton begins and spreads until the cicatrX sore
man with malignant tumOr, leading under the eye
and occupying the OOI OF tue orbit recently placed
under PIOI. Motifs The carotid artery tied on
the Of the tumOr TO sarve u out by deIvinR
il of the nutrment winch II had obtained, and the
tumOr itself was cut away. The man has recovered