The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-19
MANS ORIGINAL HUE.
DR.. Ego Thinks He Can Ascertain whether
Adam WA C0lored or Plain.

DR.. Ego Think He Can Ascertain Whether
Adam Was Colored or Plain.
The scientific world is curiously awaiting
the results of an experiment now being
made by DR.. John Ege Of Reading. says the
Philadelphia Record. If successful DIR.
Eye expects to accomplish the miracle of
turning the negro white and the
white man black. He will estab-
fish at the same time the orlRi-
nal color of mankind. The process OF
which this wonderful evolution in chang
ing the color Of the skins of the human
family is to be brought about. 9 by skin
grating, an operation which has been
known and performed throughout the civ
ilized world for ages, but which DIR. Eye.
by his experiments, hopes and expects to
very materially advance"
It is q well-known fact that there are two
distinct methods of skin R~rafting-the Re-
verdius and Thirsch. The former method
ia the cutting of minute particles of skin
with a pair of scissors, while the latter
method provides for the use of any sharp
instrument similar to a razor, and in that
way taking larger pieces. The hrst method
ia considered the better by some of the
medical profession for old ulcers, while the
latter is preferable in new accidents like
scalping and scalding... But while the
the medical profession nor to DR..
Eye, who has upon several for
mer occasions healed difficult sores
by means Of grating the skin of
a healthy man into old Wounds the matter OF
intermixing the skins of the different races
of the human family, and the hope and ex
pectation that the migrated skin, regardless
of what its color may have been originally,
will assume the hue of the body to which it
has been transplanted, is what be is now
be, ng every effort to accomplish.
l. 1as been treating for some time Joel
Saul, a young mar residing at 2oo Mulberry
street, Reading, who for over two years
has been troubled with an obstinate ulcer,
involving almost the entire lower portion of
| the left leg. AS a last resort to eject a per-
manent cure he decided upon grating q
new skin on the sore leg. Having obtained
from Mr.. Saul permission to graft the skin
Of a colored man, it opened up to him an
he had long been looking for. and he at
once entered into the project with a spirit
and zeal born of a determination to advance
the cause of science if possible. After con
siderable effort, he finally, by the aid OF
money, secured two healthy negroes of
ebony black, who consented to part with e
certain portion of their skins, and the pro-
cess of grating, under both of the pre-
scribed methods, was accomplished. 10
await the result of the operation, and to
watch for any change in the color of the
black skin, was attended with considerable
anxiety on his part; and when, after a few
days Of patient Watching, he was rewarded
by observing that the skin of the black was
gradually, but surely turning white, he at
once determined to further pursue his in
vestigation, and ascertain if it was possible
to change the skin of the Caucasian to cor
respond with that of the Ethiopian.
Accordingly, on Tuesday last he secured
James Lewis, a healthy negro of 35 years.
who consented to undergo the operation for
the benefit of science. The doctor used a
large knife resembling the blade of a razor,
and cut bare on the negroes arm a space two
inches by three-quarters of an inch. In
this place he planted twelve pieces of skin
from his own arm and twenty-five pieces
from the arm of an intimate friend. When
the wound was examined for the first time
the ingrafted skin appeared whittier than be-
fore, possibly by contrast, and 1t will re-
quire probably four or five days longer to
determine what the result will be.
Should the color change to correspond
with the blacks skin, the doctor will pur-
sue his investigation still further, n the
intermi1ing of the skins of the Caucasian
and Monaghan will be his next attempt.
DIR. Ego says: IF the white migrated
skin continues to grow n remain white
on the black mans arm it will show the
constancy of the white race as we'll as the
originality of color. Should white skin
thus ingrafted change to black. scientists
could argue that black was the original
color of mankind"