Note 82 — Chapter XVIII · The Prepuce as an Outlaw, and its Effects on the Glans.

In the seventeenth volume (third series) of “Guy’s Hospital Reports” there is a most interesting report at page 243 of a case of skin-grafting that was performed by Thomas Bryant. The case was an extensive ulcer resulting from an injury. Bryant took some skin-grafts from the man’s arm and some from a colored man in an adjoining bed. The account gives the daily report as taken from the note-book of Mr. Clarke, and is accompanied by a colored plate to illustrate the subject; the proliferation of the black skin is astonishing. In closing the report Mr. Clarke says: “But in the figures depicted the amount of increase in the black patches will be well seen. In ten weeks the four or five pieces of black skin, which together were not larger than a grain of barley, had grown twentyfold, and in an another month the black patch was more than one inch long by half an inch broad, the black centres of cutification having clearly grown very rapidly by the proliferation of their own black cells.”