New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-16
ScaIpel Used as a Wand to
Remodel Human Face
or Limbs.
DIR. LEXER EXHIBITS
WONDERS TO MEETING
Lantern Slides Give History OF
Amazing Case-Others Tell
of Work Accomplished.


art % building up on the human BODY
a new face. remodelled Joint, or wrist
tendon atrophied from psralysis-Were
shovn IN their striking reality yesterday
NJ the third day OF the congress OF the
international Surgical Association at the
Hotel Astor,
while surgeons applauded enthuslss-
t,canv. pictures were flashed on screen
which first aroused a sense or weiruhess,
then seemed incredibly marvellous. ana
anailv commanded feeling OF awed al
miration Of the skill. Imagination ana
technique which made their accomplish
nents possible
The demonstration Of the ability OF
.hese imaginative scientists In the Work
4 IF gratis and TRANSFORMATIONS was gwen
IN a darkened room. The voice OF the lec'-
urer. speaking in German, seemed mo-
notonous. except to those who UNDERSTOOD
his tongue. And then the click Of IAN
4 tern slide was heard and the face OF
wman hideously disngured by gasoiene
explosion. appeared on the screen.
Through successive slides the race
changed. In place OF the repulsive ourns
could be distinguished nrst blurred masses
NJ fash. without any similarity 10 the
features which should have occupied
their places. Where an ear had oeen' or
a nose should have been, there were DTS
of new flesh. until half a pound perhaps,
Of tissue had been built on. IL seeiieN
impossible that there could DO any "u
HAN expression TO the outline
But wait" said the lecturer
IRE only half completed.
The next picture OF the Work Oh Tue
\ human sculptor showed the same woman
q few months later, but not the same
face. Instead, there was a new phSsioe
ror,v all built up. and in comparison
aven with the face Of honey peIsoN
OF attractive appearance.
Tba sneaker was DR.. E. Lexer' or jena
Germany. whose practice in plastic sur
1srv has won him foremost place III
the great schools OF Vienna Aeipsi''
Munich and other cities. ia
The lantern slides he used we're heiu
an nv the customs officials on Dr. Lex
A. arrival and the surgeon was com
- e,led 70 nav IS for the privilege OF SNOW
flng them. the
only one displayed on the screen anu -
The other forms Of plastic surgery u
I,exer shared honors with Dr. 1ohh D.
Murphy. Of Chicago.
The thesis Of DR.. Alexis Carrel, OF tne
Rockefeller Institute, established I'M
4tation In transplantation Of organs 10
ahat operation known as autoplasuc'
EHhis was found to be the case with
eue TRANSFORMATIONS according TO yes
,rday's speakers, who declared that
iv those operations where pieces OF
+ ne or flesh tissue were taken from the
TENTS body were successful Thus
h hone that diseased or destroyed parIs
a patients body could be replaced by
& knilar parts from the body Of a man
WHY dead has not been realized.
W DR. Lexer told OF cases where bone
al become dead in a Joint, or where Tor
me reason large sections Of bone had
be taken from en- arm or a leg. Then
ne screen would wildly portray the
& recess of cutting away the bone, the
splacing Of new bone tissue and the
bal complete usefulness OF the mem
i DIR. Murphy described a case where
+ 3ece Of bone fourteen inches long DIS
lsed and beyond healing, had been re-
Roved from a leg and another piece Of
same length taken from the other
T. TO put in its place. In gradual
cess Of assimilation the substituted
re disappeared and new bone sub
nee built up by the blood grew In
HE the loss of bone tissue in the other
i was similarly replaced.
ranger still hip joints, knee joints
Tx elbows were shown first in their
"a ased state and afterward with new
7be structure riveted on. with the nails
inly showing
al Murphy gave an example OF still
her wonder, in the case Of boy
CT a paralyzed forearm and dropping
err, The arm was laid open and the
eak controlling the wrist function fol-
ID to the shoulder, where IT was
nd to have atrophied So the nexor
don, which connects the upper arm
hi the bones OF the forearm, was split
led away from the inside OF the fore
10 the back of the wrist. and the
part divided again into five
Aches, which were connected with
4 finger. The result was a removal
paralysis and almost normal move
OF the boys forearm and wrist.
bexer explained the need OF q bone
n. land Dr. Murphy pointed out that
as necessary 10 place flaps OF fatty
ance between the new and old bone.
n this. he said, he sometimes used
nz# albumen.
br Carrers important paper on the
lure to establish practical transplanta-
-. Of organs from one animal to an
rs ,,ber aroused much comment. and his
+. initiation OF possible success to the work
homoplasty WAS corroborated by DR..
IJIlmann, OF Vienna.
t DIR. e. Willard, OF Lyons, told Of pre-
CRYING arteries in cold storage for long
,eriods until needed.
In the middle OF the afternoon an ex-
cutive session was held, and all the Of
,ers Of the association were reelected.
w w. Keen was elected new presi
mt OF the congress.
&rhis afternoon DR.. Ellsworth Eliot. jr..
n perform six operations at the Pres
s. terrain Hospital, including the trans
antation OF a bone in the forehead and
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