A HUNDRED HELPED HER.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SKIN GRAFTING. Cases of skin- grafting are becoming fairly common nowadays, but one reported from Los Angeles is probably unique in the history of such cases. Miss Alice Holgate, a pretty young college girl of Redlands, California, was shockingy burned some time ago in a motor cycle accident which resulted in her dress catching fire. For three weeks her life was despaired of, and even when she began to really so serious were the burns that the doctors said that there was no hope of her own skin growing again. They suggested that it was impossible for any half a dozen persons to supply the necessary amount. Miss Holgate’s school mates at Redlands discussed the situation, and- no fewer than ICO girls offered themselves' as subjects for skin grafting. Small portions of skin were taken from each of these plucky volunteers, and the doctors now announce that the operation has been successfully concluded, and tha tthe patient is fairly on the road to recovery. '
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3315, 6 September 1911, Page 8
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171A HUNDRED HELPED HER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3315, 6 September 1911, Page 8
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