New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital - Skin Graft

Photograph of two physicians taking a skin graft from a patient using Karl Thiersch’s method, circa 1889. The man with the razor is Dr. Theodore Dunham (right), assisted by Dr. Franz Torek (left). Dr. Torek was the surgeon to the Babies Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and Dr. Dunham taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in the fields of Clinical Microscopy and Applied Pathology from 1898 to 1903. The photograph was published on page 303 of “The Post Graduate” journal with the caption “Taking the Grafts.”

Franz Torek, MD (1861-1938), served as surgeon and adjunct professor of surgery at the New York Post Graduate Hospital from 1890 to 1915.