Plastic Surgery

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Abstract
THE essence of plastic surgery is the transplantation of tissue. Skin is the one most commonly transplanted. It is therefore proposed to review the development of the methods of skin transplantation that have led to some of the modern principles on which the present management of plastic surgical problems is based. In any young surgical specialty much emphasis is placed on methods and technics, which, as they improve and are standardized, pave the way for the formulation of basic principles that apply in the broadest sense. Many of these principles bear directly on all phases of reconstructive surgery, but particularly . . .