Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-12-17
WHlSKERS IN SEANON
RESULT OF SUCCESSFUL SKIN
GRATING OPERATION.
Amateur Surgeon Did His Best, enc
Was in No Way to Blame. But Ns
ture Proved Herself Triumphant
Over ALL

Perhaps the most curious case II
surgery that was e,er performed IL
the legion OF the Adlrondaeks is that
which was executed upon William MIC
Coy. a wood man
Mccoy has Just returned from the
Spruce Lake Mountain lumber camp
after an absence of two years. He
brings with him the strange story
end its proof
A year ago last May he was work.
Ing with John H'foy getting out some
long poles to rel ar chute which :
used to slide logs down the nourtai1
side. Dnffoy went to cut q limb by
al upward sWiH2 whom die axe slip
ped from his E.nG- ard went Evirg
through the air K 5tsuc}, M4Gey,
and its keen edge shaved off the
greater part Of his right cheek. He
bled ProfuSelE while the FASTENED
20 the ca'2p a half mile away. Tscre
was no doctor within thirty.ive miles
nnd worst of all the streams wore
raging torreHts that c0ula not pcssibis
he for!ei. Communication with the
outside world &as Cjlt eff and there
gas not likely to be ;>3y means of get
ting to d village for SONY days tc
tcme. But as luck Weulf have it
there happened to be ii nurse in camp
rom Utica named William Henry,
who was out rouPhi"g if for his health
Henry took Mccoy in hand After
having partially stonped the flow OF
blood he went out to the stable, TOOK
little fawn that some of the boys
had captured couple of days before,
shaved the hair for about nine square
inches off the animals side, and then
he carried it t. the camp. He took
fountain pen and marked out on the
shaved surface OF the fawn the shape
OF the wound on McCoy's face. While
some of the woodsmen held the erea-
ture, Henry cut the SIN around where
he had marked peeled it off, and ap
piled it Immediately to the face of Nc
Coy. Having fitted it in place firm
ly, he rubbed over thick coat of bal,
sam gum and over that he placeG
tight BAN es. The man stopped
bleeding at once
week a1terward Henry took off
the bandage. The graft was found
to be a perfect success. The wound
was healing rapidly and it appeared
that the scar would show but slight.
ly. In four weeks Mccoy was healed
SO we'll that he was able to go to
work. Soon after, however, he no
ticed when he drew his hand across
his cheek that hair was growing ON
the grated skin. He was rather
pleased at that for he thought that
he might wear beard and thus en-
tirely hide the scar. But in few
days more the hair had grown so
thickly that its color and nature were
plainly visible. 1t was the hair OF
the fawn growing, and, moreover, II
was spotted like that of fawn. He
did not dare to shave for fear of
breaking open the skin, and allowed
1t to grow until the fall of the syear.
Then the spots disappeared and the
"blue" coat Of a full grown deer took
its place.
WHeA SDIIHS CdHc dIOuuu Hc saw
that the hair OF his cheek vac falling
out and fine rcd hair was growing
At last the blue or winter coat was
entirely gone, and the red summer
coat took Its place. In fact he and
the other woodsmen, to their merri.
ment, saw that the grated skin
varied and changed precisely az does
the coat of a deer.