The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-11-04
WITH A NEW SKIN.
A Wonderful Example of the
Nice Powers of Modern Sur
gerry.

ley Atildi, TIC ludu WHO WIS
skinned alive" has returned to work.
His case is curl us. As an i'lu- ira
ton of the nice powers If modern sur
gerry it will be talkel alb ut from one
end of the country to the o her On
Wednesday. July 80. Keller fell iuto
a steam Vat at the Indiauapolis Ve"er
Works. He was taken out as quickly
as possible, but he had been scalded
from the soles of his feet to the middle
of his chest.
One arm was all right but the other
was blistered to the Shoulder. Huge
blisters puffed up all over the mans
body, and the fluid which had exud- d
from the flesh to fill them had been
cooked to jelly, In removing his
clothes great strips of the outside or
scarf skin came of, leaving exposed
the true skin underneath, cooked un-
til it looked like parboiled lhstrr.
His toes and ankles were so bli,t.r red
and swollen as to lose nearly all re-
semblance to human members.
At soon as his fellow-workm got
Kellar out of The vat they telephoned
for the Company's surgeon, Dr.. Ralph
Perry. "There is, perhaps, one
chance in a thousand of saving this
man, said the surgeon when he had
looked at the burns. He set to work
however, and creased Kellar from top
to toe with a mixture Of linseed oil
and lime water. Then he swathed
tue body in cot on wadding, from
which all possible impurities and d.
sease germs had been removed by
chemicals.
| For two days and nights the case
hung without loss or gain. A teas
pooniul of brandy was given every
few hours. Then a change came.
Kellar seemsd 10 be choking. The
throat became swollen but this swell
ling was checked. The mans tenn
perature rose little. Fever set in.
This gave great hope. The next
morning Kellsr asker for something
to eat, and actually ate a piece of pie
and drank some cOff, e. The news oil
this shocked the surgeon at first, but
| he said
81 guess we'll win this fight, FIR a
man who can eat pie with no skin OIL
him has life enough left to grow mes
one."
| When suppuration began great care
was taken to let out the pus at every
EEc;.. al. The first first Idr ss;Si took three
days were consumed in taking of
the bits of old skin, four hours each
day being spent with the forceps,
scissors and scalpel removing the skir
layer by layer. Not piece as big as
a dime was forced. KelIars pluck
was marvellous. The raw surflces
were dressed with an iodoform mix
ture and bsndaged with soft stuFs.
| Meanwhile the swamps of South
Bend were being secured for two
pound frogs. A bushel basket OF
these were cleaned with a germicide
mixture and fed on pure food. The
raw surfaces Of K, liars body were
tenderly wsshed with clean warm
water, then with peroxide of hydro.
gen, which destroys pus. The utmost
cleanliness and wholesomeness was
insisted upon. Just before applying
the frog skin, the raw surface was
washed with a ak'sOlutiOn Of corro-
sive sublimate. Everything ready,
the first frog was brought out. With
a quick snip of the scissors, its spinal
cord was severed at the back of the
neck. Then the loose, pearly white
skin from over the abdomen was
quickly taken out and thrust into q
dish of water which had BEEN boiled,
but which was now merely warm.
In the water had been dropped a
little Of the corrosive sublimate solr-
ton. Being cleansed, the ska was
cut up into bits about tenth of an
inch square and applied to Kellar's
body-inside in, outside out. Pow
dered iodoform was busted over the
graft, which was sealed tightly from
impurities.
DIR. Perry made gratis on forty
two occasions. Thirty-two operations
were unsatisfactory /; ten were salts
factory. From each of the ten centers
healthy skin radiated, until now
Kellar is ''as good as new"
So to-day Keller is at work-the
only man in the world who has been
( boiled and skinned alive, and who hes
frog skin where be once wore his own.