The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-02-13
II Was Grated There to Saw
III, ul.tIa One From Baldnlss.
IT IS FIRST CASE OF THE KIND.
canln, PET Furnished ihs Scllp Covering.
Mother Of tha Little Fellow Delighted
With the Result.

New York, Feb 12--'T do not care
whether it is dogs hair or any other sort
SO long as my little boy comes back 10
me with his laughing face and glad
heart" said Mrs. John Trammer. of Sl4
Third avenue. Manhattan, last night.
when asked about the remarkable surgical
operation that her nine-year-old boy Otto
has just undergone at Flower hospital.
They have grated a patch from his
dogs back right on top of his head" she
said. "and the hair is growing as luxu-
riantly and as thickly as it would IL it
were his own"
Otto Trammer, a bright little chap, was
at play with the children OF Third avenue
at the cornor OF Fifty-second street on
Christmas eve. A trolley car ran him
down, rolled him over and finally dragged
him so feet under the fender.
DOGS HAIR GRATED ON.
He was taken out and hurried to Flower
hospital. where IL was found that one
leg and an arm were broken and several
ribs fractured. A patch OF his scalp had
been torn off and left in the street, while
what remained of his head covering hung
by the skin on his neck.
The scalp was drawn back into place
and fastened. His broken bones were set.
For two weeks he disturbed the patients
In the surgical ward by his delirious
means. When he came 10 himself 1t was
found that his collarbone was also
broken. This was set and he began TO
mend: but he had no hair or flesh on a
piece of his skull six inches square.
There Is but one chance for him,
said DR.. Wilcox, and that is TO graft
some hair onto his head, ex-
planned his happy mother when a reporter
asked her about IL last night. And as
there was no one who wanted 10 give up
his scalp for him concluded TO give up
mine.
..By that time Otto had got so that he
sat up In his bed and played good deal
One of his playfellows was Fritz, the
hospital dog. The nurses had given Fritz
TO Otto telling him that he should have
the dog when he left the institution One
day when / went TO see Otto found him
with excitement shining in his eyes. 1t
had occurred to him TO ask Fritz to give
up part of his skin with the hair on IL.
instead of scalping me, his mother. He
had asked the surgeon and the surgeon
said he believed IL could be done IL we
were willing TO try It.
Eve were. and so the dog was chloro-
formed and six inches of his skin with
the long, wavy black hair on 1t was cut
or with the thin flesh under IL and graft
ed onto poor Otto's bald Uranium.
OPERATION A SUCCESS.
! after II was done the surgeons were
not so sure IL would succeed, and they
looked pretty blue, but when Otto came
out OF the chloroform himself and was
told that the hair was on his head he was
delighted and said he would make 1t grow
And II did grow. DIR. Wilcox told me that
II was the only case In America where
dogs skin had been grated upon human
beings head, and he was not sure that
It was done right.
"But the other day when i went up 10
see. him the cast had been taken off and
the hair was found to be finely grated
and growing. OF course. II will not part
in the middle yet. but that will come with
hair at all. IL Is soft and silky and shines
like ebony. There Is little wave'to II.
and when his hair is combed over and lies
on top and blends with the dogs hair
the scars of his accident will all be COW
cred up
I Mrs. Trammer said that at the hos
pi.al the other patients were watching
the case with a good deal of interest and
had already started funny story 10 the
effect that the hospital cat. very chummy
with Otto before the skin grating had
run away from him with big tail and
rounded back as soon as she climbed upon
the couch and smelled his new dog hair
after the grating. She will not play with
him now.