The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-13
BOY GIVES SKIN
FOR FRIEND
Owen CarrOtherS Parts With
Twelve Inches of CuticIe
TO CURE D. BERNELL
Who Suffers From ViruIent
Blood Poisoning.

Oven Carrothers gave up tV elve square
riches of skin from his arms in order that
friel1 might become 4 healthy man
again. owen Caraothers is q tsG Is years
Of age, and goes to a West Side school
Ills friend is D. Bernell, who is now con
who is now confined in the Wichita hos
pital with a very bad case Of blood poIs-
oning. Two weeks ago a brother and sis
Ser Of the man each contributed a little
cuticle toward healing the wound. but
none Of this grating remained. Then
u was decided TO make another graft
ana Owen Carrothers voluntarily offered
ms arms Tor the test. This time the
Grafts grew, ana AIR. BerneI is in q fair
way 10 recover ana there IS a possibility
mat only a small scar VIII remain Of
his awful wound.
About TWO months ago Mr. BurneH was
injured, and soon after blood poisoning
set IN The injury was on the left Lex
n Dttle above the knee. The poisoning
spread until il covered almost the entire
Ilmo from the knee 70 the thigh. and it
seemed Is If the spread of the poison
could not be checked. Finally the man
Was put under the antiseptic treatment.
and the wound old not grow larcer.
SINCE that time the wound has been
gradually healing. and two weeks q 60 il
was decided TO graft some skin ON the
wound About twenty square inches of
Sutlcle were taken from the arms Of his
hrotner and sister but ali of the CRAFTS
died Last Wednesday another graft
was made, and yesterday when the
wound was dressed il was found that
nearly all the CRAFTS were growing.
IL taxes "a person with a steady nerve
70 make the gratis. Some of the most
expert have been able To take the skin
4 r4r,r-
per layer of skin is taken. and this is
cut on with razor The knife is start
Cd under tl7e skin and then cuts along
Tor several inches. IN SOM. cases owen
1arrothers had strips OF skin three inches
long and from half-inch TO an inch In
Mlath taken or There is very little
pain, only d burning sensation. and in =
few DAYS it could hardly be told thar
the surface had been touched with 2.
knife. There is a little red strfD. Hut tha+
IS all. owen Carrothers had q little more (
IMAM twelve square inches O skin re-
moved rms IS pretty big surface to I
cut over without drawing blood.
The skin is placed on the wound in
ISLANDS as It IS known 70 the hosDital /
people That IS. re wound is not en-
urely covered with the new skin. but
ohiy IN spots. When the skin grows il
sends out little roots that form new skin
and IN a short time the whole wound is
'feiSu Win entirely new skin formed Z
from these little spots
When the skin begins 10 grow from tbe /
outside OF the wound it sends out the new 4
roots, and if there is no new flesh or
skin Tor it 10 cling TO the skin soon de-
Gays and the wound is left omen.
MI. BerneI is a well known sheen !
raiser living west Of the city. lie was /
Mofkafis with another man when the
other was injured and Mr.. BerncH while (
attending 10 his friends wound. became 4
injected and soon blood poisoning set .
IN The hospital authorities stated YES
terday that il was one OF the most vim
lent eases Of blood poisoning thev had
ever seen Gangrene had set in and the
inIectlon spread with remarkable rapid
ity. 1t was first Thought tb7t tho Ii1,b
would have 10 be taken off. but when fha
anpsepuc treatment was found to SION
! ne spreading Of the poison it vas
thought the limb could he saved.