Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09

tient Otherwise Condemned to
Lifelong Seclusion.
Brooklyn, Nov. 6.-Lying in a bet
in st. Mary's hospital, this borough
is a patient for whom the surgeons
have undertaken to reconstruct BY
skin grating practically the entire
face. The patient is woman who
barely escaped with her life from {
fire in her home more than two
months ago. The flames burned the
skin from her forehead, cheek and
destroyed the left eye. i
The tedious work of restoring the
patients face is likely to take
and the first of the long SER
les of operations necessary was per-
formed yesterday. The area upon
which new skin is to be built covers
the entire forehead and extends
over the left eye and
cheek.
The area is too large to give hope
for any growth of new skin by
means Of natural reparation. To
aid nature, and to afford points for
the regrowth Of the skin, this area
must be overlaid with the precious
skin gratis. 1t was said yesterday,
after the operation, that the patient
was resting, and had no fever. 1t is
too early to say whether the success
If surgical Intervention will be able
TO reproduce a normal appearance.
To a woman-and this patient is
! woman of As years-the disfgure-
nent occasioned by burn involv-
ing the entire side of her face is
equivalent to confinement for life,
'or the scar, contracting and draw
ng the skin, hideously whitened and
,igid, deprives her of the attractive
ness that is almost as dear as life.
To wear veil, always, to keep in
practically in the dark
his is the sentence that such an &C
.ident confers, and the Office Of the
surgeon is to restore by plastic pro-
esses what will enable her to face
he world, and be among friends and
without knowing that
hey shrink from the horror of her
CARED countenance.
II the work Of the surgeon is to
ucceed completely, the face must be
constructed Of quality Of skin
hat is peculiar to the face. This is
he main difficulty. On different
arts of the body the skin has diff
erent texture. Upon the hand it is
Kicker and tougher than upon the
rm, or the face. To secure skin
,ithout hair follicles is also impor-
ant in the cosmetic surgery of the
ace.
Small islets OF skin, specially pre-
AIRED and fioated in special chemi-
al fluids, are cut into minute points,
nd allowed to flow on the burned
reas, one by one, where they take
Dot.
This method Of grating" tissue
q other tissue Is Of the utmost diff
Guilty, and its principles formed the
inject of recent studies by Prof. A.
Goddard of the City college, and
FAD at a meeting of the New York
cademy Of Sciences. Other papers
n grating tissues have been pre-
AIRED by members Of the Rockefeller
lstitute, by Carre1, and many other
1t is not always pos
BILE to cause union Of the grating
,ints of cuticle with the flesh of
10 hosts
In the present case, unless these
lin gratis take root, the patient,
oman, will have to bear mortify-
lg Disagreement for life. The
ames destroyed the tissues almost
the bone. The tissue that was re-
aced yesterday Is the underlying or
cial layer, upon which at later
me the islets Of true skin may be
'afted. 1t is too soon, it was said
garding the cause, to know wheth-
this true skin to be required, can
, obtained in sufficient amounts
ON the patient, or must be taken
ON another person.
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