Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17

It in place In short time it had reunited itself to
the maxillary in good position. The patients ap
pearance much improved.
For a man who had humpbacked nose the bis
toury was again introduced into the nosri the lining
of the nose was perforated close to the triangular
cartilage, the hump was reached and the skin sepa-
rated from it entirely. When the operation had been
achieved the hump was removed. BY means OF a
saw it detached from the bony frameWork
Then because the Quadrangular cartilage still formed
n hump, it was smoothed down to replace the
convex line of the framework with straight line.
The debris of the operation removed through the
nostr and nature did the rest The skin grows fast
TO the remodelled framework and the result is that
after few days there is straight nose instead of
a humpbacked organ. There Is no cutting OF the
skim there is Rhinoplasty usually resulted
in scar If not the hawlesS r9llt Obtained was al
most accidental
DR. Joseph has shortened long and has re-
duced prodgiously overbuky organs. He has re-
moved bit of skif shaped bone from the leg of a
patient and transferred it to the nasal cavity to
supply an omission Of nature with never cut on
the outside skin surface to indicate that the hand of
man had supplied what nature failed to furnish IN
the original fashioning He has been able to remodel
noses in accordance with a widely different racial
type but he insists that the facttous character OF
the nose is always apparent lie declares that MS
method is better suited to the correction OF noses
accidentally defOrmed or by nature misshapen than
to the oblfteration of the badges of ethnc origin
On the afternoon of February 3, 1909, an entire new
scalp was grated the head of Fraulein Gabllle
Fritscb whose own scalp had been torn off in a ma
chine in Prague. The operation performed by
Professor Kukula, of Vienna, and no fewer than SIX
hundred persons called at the Prague Hospital TO
Finally three young women were selected and skin
was taken from the of the feet of each girl and
laid on the scalp of the patient noted surgeon Is
to attempt the operation by which eyelashes are
"sewed by the Partisan pioneers in the hope OF re-
storing the girls hair, The tightness of the scalp
covering will of course make this extremely dell
cate and troublesome task and it may yield no results
Work of school surgeons and of the experts aboring
in conjunction with juvenile courts and houses of cor
recton in which removal of adenoid growths or the
correction of defective vision have eliminated Grim
i,oI fac oh nj % known
of too occurrence to give them extended space
in the present article.
Case of a Boy.
Until he was eight years old a boy, of Nazareth,
Northampton county, Pa, normal, healthy and
honest. He fell from a hayrck and lighted on his
head and arm. He washed the blood from his head
and said nothing about the accident From that day,
however, he a different boy. He fought every
boy he knew, played dangerous pranks and developed
a mania for setting fires. He was sent to the Medico-
Chirurgical College, in Philadelphia There ne tried
to asphyxiate nine children in the ward with him.
An examination of the boys head was made by DIR.
Ernest Laplace since decorated by the French gov
ernment for his services to surgical science He
found that there apparent on the brain
at the point that has become intimately connected
with the desire to see tire and create It. Arrange
ments were made for an operation.
''Why are you so badT DR.. Laplace asked the boy.
i've got stone in my head" said the boy, laugh
ing
Trephining resulted in the removal of circular
-bone-from the skull about an inch and
quarter in diameter. With the exterior opened DR..
Iaplace removed from the interior other pieces of
bone That was the extent of the operation. The
pressure on the brain was removed In time the skull
''granulated and made new covering over the spot
where the "button" had been removed
II don't feel like being bad" said the boy, when
he left the hospital And since that time he has been
normal and well behaved.
Cutting out the bad spots" was the term of ridi-
cule outsiders applied to these operations for while
And then they stopped long enough to be convinced
of the efficacy of them The Juvenile Court and the
Society to Protect Children from Cruelty indorsed
and fostered this school of surgery. At the
offices of the latter institution many thirty
operations were performed in a week. The percent
age of restoratons normal faculties and traits was
remarkably large. The doctors who were performing
the operations were interested in them were Dr. s.
Weir Mitchell author and neurologst; DR.. w. NJ. L.
Coplin one time Director of Health and Charities in
Philadelphia and now head Of Jefferson Medical Col
lege and jefferson Hospital; DR.. Francis Y. Dercum,
a renowned specialist; DR.. A. G. Abbott OF the
Bureau of Health; DR.. Herbert L. Northrup, noted
anatomist and surgeon of Hahnemann College and
Hospital; DR.. w. w. Hawke, specialist alienist OF
Bloekley, which is the Philadelphia General Hospital
under its more or less local name. The clinics drew
noted visitors from other American cities and from
abroad