A considerable portion of the wound healed by adhesions, and the patient was discharged, cured, in fifty-four days.
No exfoliation of bone occurred.

Reverdin, a relative of the discoverer of transplantation of skin, reported the case of a girl of twenty-one whose entire scalp was detached by her hair being caught in machinery, leaving a wound measuring 35 cm.

from the root of the nose to the nape of the neck, 28 cm.

from one ear to the other, and 57 cm.

in circumference.