Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — New Faces, Including Cheeks, Noses, Lips Jaws, Provided In Great Hospitals of Paris [ARTICLE]

New Faces, Including Cheeks, Noses, Lips Jaws, Provided In Great Hospitals of Paris

Some miracles of modern surgery are being performed at a hospital in Paris. The surgeons here, writes a correspondent, have become sculptors in human flesh. They reconstruct a man who otherwise would have to go through life hideously ugly, but who is able to leave the hospital practically a normal man. A man whose face had been blown away by a shell has a new nose and lips grown for him; new chins are no longer a matter of comment. The simplest method is that of removing a scar. An incision is made and the arteries bound up; then a piece of skin is cut from another part of the body and the surgeon’s scissors clip it to the desired shape, and very speedily the scar disappears. To construct a nose a piece of gristle Is removed from the region of the ribs and “put out to nurse,” as the surgeon describes it, under the skin of the forehead. The gristle continues tb live, and when all is ready the surgeon romoves it and the protective skin and skillfully manipulates knife and scissors until a new nose is put in its place. The lower portion of the organ is sewn to the upper lip and skin removed from the thigh is used to cover up the scar on the forehead. A man who could not eat because he had no lower jaw was given a new one constructed from his hip bone. New lips are with flesh removed from the neck; broken bones in the cranium are removed and fresh bones put in their place and kept there by a few metal supports. A soldier who had lost his upper jaw, Ups, cheeks, palate, nose and inouth came to a hospital to ask for a new face because he wished to visit his mother. He was accomodated with new cheeks and lips, and in a comparatively short time he had the rest of his new face.