Mr. George Pollock, of St. George's Hospital, has for some
time been experimenting on the best mode of preventing the sears caused by burns. Following a French experimenter, M. Reverdin, who has detached minute pieces of skin and transplanted them to the raw surface of a burn, so as to give a new skin, Mr. Pollock took the other day a bit, about half the size of the surface of a pea, from a negro's shoulder — (the man had, it was said, a sovereign for allowing the experiment) —and attached it to a wonnd in the skin of a child. The experiment was made in order to show which portion of the skin it is which is concerned in the develop- ment of new skin ; but it has caused a very silly uproar, as if the negro had been seriously hurt, and an attempt been made to darken the child's skin against its will. Yesterday's Lancet explains the true nature of the proceeding, which seems to have been one of the safest, humanest, and most interesting of physio- logical experiments.
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