Valdez daily prospector., 1914-06-15
SURGEON GAVE
 HER A NEW FACE
Horribly Dlsfigured Woman FL
 na|Iy Made Pres0ntab|o.
GOOD LOOKS FOR UGL|NESS

Youth With Very Bad Features and
 Hare Lip Now Attractive-Graftings
 and Successful Transplantation of
 Tissue and Fat Enlarge the Field of
 Preparatory Operations.
 Surgery has progressed to the point where it can supply new nerves, blood vessels, bones and even new faces to men and women who have been maim- ed and mutilated by accident or dis ease. European specialists have de- scribed to the congress of the Ameri- can Surgical association many exam- pies of the wonderful results obtained in reparatory surgery. Dr. Erich Lex CT of the University of Jena, Germany, showed a once beautiful woman whose face he practically remade in two years. She had been disfgured in the explosion of an automobile.
 First she was shown without nose 1 and with the vestige of a chin, with part of an ear and without eyebrows, and with her eye lids drawn down in hideous fashion. No more unpromising subject could have been presented. First the surgeon made a nose for her out of cartilage and fat and skin which he had obtained from other parts of her body. After awhile he saw that the nose was shaped up and nodded l anew. He made chin for her, revised the disfigured mouth and put some artistic touches on the remains of her ears.
 i He finished with portrait of the young woman in gala dress and smil ing. She had not been restored to her 1 former pulchritude, but, taken all in all, the surgeon had performed most remarkable feat.
 Operation For Hare Lip. | Then came hare tipped young man with decidedly unprepossessing face. The surgeon literally transformed him in few months into Prince Charm ing and induced him to raise mus tache to cover the lip line The final state of the youth was almost hand some enough for him to qualify as riding master or tango teacher
 From surgical point of view one of the most brilliant operations. which was shown by Dr. Lexer in color pho tographs on the screen, was the trans plantion of fat and part of a bone into shattered patella. so that the free action of the knee was restored to the patient The surgeon demonstrated also how he would obtain quantities Of fat from legs and insert them under cheeks to fill up hollows or to smooth out foreheads in which there were un- slightly cavities. For patient who had no external ears he built two per fectly good ones with graceful. scroll like effects. A young girl whose face was her misfortune was changed into an attractive miss.
 New Eyebrows.
 Dr. H. Morestin of Paris told the congress that graftings and transplan- tations of tissues had considerably en- larged the limits of reparatory opera tions.
 'They have enabled us." he contin- ued, ito remedy under better condi- tions many grave deformities and to lead to many other restorations hither 1 to almost uuattainable."
 I He spoke of the use of small frag- ments of skin. of cutaneous transplan. tatfon in two distinct times, of the grating of eyebrows and mustaches and of the strengthening of the bro ken and mashed nose by grafting carti- iage.
 "Adipose graftings," continued pr. Morestin. "are excellent for filling up empty spaces, bony hollows. for effac- ing the depressions of soft parts. and therefore they render the greatest service in repairing cranial gaps and facial deformities. Fatty tissue with few blood vessels is most easily transplanted from one region to an- other The readiness with which fat may be obtained and the great facility with which it may be used in all de. fcrmities and the beauty of the results obtained through these operations. which are attended with no risk, make adipose grafting very valuable. addi- ton to aesthetic and reparatory sur pery" ::. ,..,