Grafts from the rabbit and dog failed, and the skin from the amputated stump of a boy was employed, and the patient was able to leave the hospital in seven months.

Cowley speaks of a girl of fourteen whose hair was caught in the revolving shaft of a steam-engine, which resulted in the tearing off of her whole scalp.

A triangular portion of the skin was hanging over her face, the apex of the triangle containing short hair, from which the long hair had been detached.

Both ears were hanging down the neck, having been detached above.

The right pinna was entire, and the upper half of the left pinna had disappeared.