In ten months she had almost completely recovered, and sight and hearing had returned.

Figure 191 shows the extent of the injury, and the ultimate results of the treatment.
Schaeffer also reports the case of a woman working in a button factory at Union City, Conn., in 1871, who placed her head under a swiftly turning shaft to pick up a button, when her hair caught in the shaft, taking off her scalp from the nape of the neck to the eyebrows.

The scalp was cleansed by her physician, Dr.Bartlett, and placed on her head about two hours after the accident, but it did not stay in position.

Then the head was covered twice by skin-grafts, but each time the grafts were lost; but the third time a successful grafting was performed and she was enabled to work after a period of two years.

The same authority also quotes Wilson and Way of Bristol, Conn., in an account of a complete avulsion of the scalp, together with tearing of the eyelid and ear.