Hemorrhage was profuse from the temporal, occipital, and posterior auricular arteries, which were tied.

The patient was seen three-quarters of an hour after the injury, and the mangled scalp was thoroughly washed in warm carbolized water, and stitched back in position, after the hair was cut from the outer surface.

Six weeks after the injury suppuration was still free, and skin-grafting was commenced.

In all, 4800 grafts were used, the patient supplying at different times 1800 small grafts.

Her own skin invariably did better than foreign grafts.