Each graft is lifted with forceps or the fingers and applied with the cut surface downward, and then is carefully unfolded by means of two probes and stretched evenly over the surface. The grafts should overlap the edges of the skin and also each other, so that no part of the raw surface is left exposed, for granulations always spring up on the uncovered parts and are apt to destroy the grafts in their vicinity; moreover, a thin scar is left at these points which may break down subsequently. The graft is always thinner at its edges than at its centre, and it is these thin edges which overlap each other or the margin of the skin; there is no real sloughing of these overlapping portions. The dressing should be left on the grafted surface for about five days; in some cases even for a week. If the wound be aseptic, no suppuration or decomposition takes place beneath it. Before being removed, the dressing should be thoroughly soaked with a 1 in 2500 sublimate solution, for otherwise it may stick at the edge and adhere to the graft, which may thus be peeled off, unless great care is taken. The parts should be gently cleansed with the same solution, and a dressing similar to that put on originally should be employed for about another week. At the end of that time the grafts are fairly, firmly adherent and then a 5 per cent, boric acid ointment is the best application. It will be found that even at the first dressings the grafts present a pink color and are adherent to the deeper surface, though they are still readily detachable. In the course of about a week the old cuticle peels off, but no raw surface is left. Later on, there is a great tendency to the formation of new epithelium, cornification, and drying-up, and it is to avoid the latter condition that ointments are so useful; in fact, until the scar is absolutely sound, it is well to keep the surface covered with some greasy application, the best being the 5 per cent, boric acid ointment. For many months the grafted surface is likely to scale or crack, and this might prove a starting-point for the occurrence of sepsis which would cause the newly grafted area to slough. It is important to keep the scar as supple as possible, and therefore it should be constantly anointed with cold cream, vaselin, or lanolin. Grafted surfaces upon the face, however, do not manifest this tendency for any length of time.