El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-12-08
FACE SURGERY
WORK IS eH0NN
Films Seen At Medical Con
vention Depict Plastic
And Other Surgery.

Faces remade while YOU wait
might have been the title of part Of
the war surgery films shown at 500
North Oregon street Thursday. under
the auspices of the FL Paso County
Medical society. as part of the program
OF the Medical and Surgical Association
Of the Southwest. now in session 1T FL
Paso
The films. among other things
showed the work performed in Euro
pean war hospitals by Dr. Fred H.
Albee. of New York By means OF
plastic surgery. this surgeon showed.
in cehuloid. how the fractured fea lures
can be restored TO their normal size
and outline by using the tissue ada
cent 20 the affected part. or by insert
ing artificial pieces. just IS dentist
inserts an artificial tooth
Several startling operations in bone
surgery were shown. including one in
which eight inches of the patients
shin bone was sawed off and grated
TO the bone Of the forearms. fitting
into grooves that had been cut into
each end OF the fractured bone.
a carpenter couldn't have trans
ferred a piece of wood more quickly"
The effect OF trench shock. and cases
OF paralysis were other features that
made even some of the hardened pro-
fessional men gasp.
Clinical Work Friday
The morning session F'rida1- was de-
voted TO clinical work by FL Paso sur
Ceons. in the local hospitals Following
was the work done
New RolstOn hospital: Dr. r. L
Ramey. right lngulnal hernia. Burt
Morgan. klOndyke. Ariz-. patient for
club feet plaster casts. Robert Fail,
30 North Stanton street patient: for
club feet. z. Pineon, Val Verde patient;
open resectlon OF elbow and fascIa
transplant. Carlos Alrneda- Latta and
Reverb streets.
Hotel Dieu- Or. F. r Carpent,r.
tousilectOmy. four opera tons. cata-
racts. two operations one iridecIomy
an ] one Suspension. larynEoscopv. DIT.
James Vance. chOlecyStOmy and appeu-
dectomy, jim Gonzales. patient: Dr.
Paul Gallagher. suspension Of uterus,
oophorectom and salpingectomy. Mrs
D Blanchard: Drs. Brown and Brown.
open reduction for fracture Of anatorni-
cal neck OF humerus. J MoquinO. pa
tent, and old fracture of ulna and
radius Ozone grafting1. Miss Quirina
Padilla, patient
Providence hospital: Dr. X D.
Lynch. Mrs Head, Chihuahua. Mexico,
pa tient laceratiOn cervix uteri: two
tonsilectomies. Misses Smith and
Booker. patients
County hospital Dr. G. y Thomas.
chronic appendicitis, complicated with
-orea- Wilma Brazeal. patient: appen-
1ectomy. Francisco CabrajaL Anthony
Texas. patient; Harry Butler, circun-
ciSion with cautery method.
DIT T. g Prentiss delivered a clinical
lecture on the diagnosis and treatment
Of digestive disturbances. at his Of
flee
Friday afternoon was taken up with
the reading Of papers by visiting doc
tors
Many Visiting Doctors
The following visiting doctors regis
tered at the headquarters in the Hotel
sheldon UP TO noon today
Guido Rannaiger. Oscuro, y. NJ Z.
W Hooper. Silver City. Y NJ: Edwin
y Shaw, Las Vegas. y. NJ. Charles g.
duncan, SocorrO, y NJ. Clarence y.
Boynton, Phoenix. Ariz-- Raw z
Ihomss. Phoenix. Ariz., Robert Greeve
Lint. Texas; Jim Camp. Pecos Texas:
Willard Smith. Phoenix. Ariz: d y
5itrDridge. Phoenix, Ariz.: c. B. Elliott.
lawson. y NJ Y a Alelker NoEaIes
Ariz-; G. A. Miller, Vaughn. \ N. =
w Noble, Tucumcari. y NJ T &
smith, Morenci. Ariz; Z. 2 AIcPheeters, !
clifton. Ariz-, Orville Harry Brown. ,
Phoenix, AriZ.; L G. Rice. Albuquerque.
\ NJ; J. r. Gilbert. Alamogordo. y. NJ;
i 9 Sexton, Las Cruces, y. N: G. S
AlcLandress, Albuquerque. y. NJ: a E
atcbrlde- Las Cruces. y. II: ". 6 Hope.
Albuquerque, n N; 9. 7 White. Sierra
Blanca, Texas; J. W Laws. Lincoln.
\ N; c. f Yount. Prescott. Ariz-
= ID Burns. L 5. 4. Fort Bayard. y.
NJ W n Richardson L s A. Fort
Bayard, n. N.