Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — Powder Grows Human Skin [ARTICLE]

Powder Grows Human Skin

The market. tor Human skin Ik going to pieces. Where It once commanded 125 a • square Inch up it bids fair to be soon Just human skin, with no value except to Its original possessor. Heroic husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts who bravely let themselves be stripped of their hides to cover some death threatening gap on the bodies of their beloved may soon cease to have opportunity tor such devotion. A little red powder one can get in any paint store is astounding the surgeons with its performances as a substitute for the heroes and their skins, the New York correspondent of the Denver Republican writes. * Scarlet rod is its name and a dollars worth will keep a busy surgery tn stock for months. It to mixed with vaseline or other components as a salve and annlied to the adw— of the canThen you can almost see the skin grow. Dr. tstaig vis. a oted surgeon of Jongs Hopkins to Baltimore. says almost as mush. Into I* the aarafni language of his profession

He tells of scarlet red growing new skin at the rate of three millimeters tn forty-eight hours on one of bls patients. His report on its use In Johns Hopkins hospital, published in a medical journal, did much to bring the strange little aniline dye to surgical notion here and elsewhere. It was taken up tn the post graduate and the German hospitals here last spring. Then its use was experimental. Now it is uniformly used in every ease where burns, wounds or ulcers have stripped the epidermis from any area of a human body. “The results have been astonishing, even baffling,” said Dr. F. William Btelchmann of the post graduate, and also connected with the German hospital. “There Is just one thing about its use. however, that should oe generally known,” Dr. Steichman said. “Where surgeons in the dispensary have used it and applied the dress lugs the results have been marvelous. Where patients have used it themselves the results have been unsatisfactory f