The Washington herald., 1916-10-11

After men and women have reached
years Of discretion" they are, as a rule,
no longer tormented with the conscious
ness that the goddess Of beauty was IN
hiding when they were ushered into this
world. It Is well that the sting of neglect
on her part does not pursue us throughout
life. but while 1t lasts 1t is sometimes Sc
we're enough to cause considerable un-
happiness, and It Is to those who actually
suffer the consciousness of a too fleshy
face, hollow cheeks, a protruding chin
and the like that this article is especially
directed
1t is obviously impossible to enter into
the value Of surgery as a corrective to
featural deformities in an article OF this
scope. Much has been done in this field
in France. and latterly British surgeons
have seriously considered the advisability
of admitting cosmetic surgery into the
legitimate domain of medicine, because
inCalculable harm has been done by
quacks and mountebanks who. under
promise OF restoring lost beauty or Of re-
molding homely faces into those prepos-
sessing the charms of Venus, have in
duced the credulous to submit to the Sc
verest form of treatment at fabulous
prices.
In some instances. they have been sue
cessful: in others, the results have been,
words. 1t is because human nature is
credulous and women especially lend
themselves to this sort of maltreatment
that physicians have seriously considered
including cosmetic work in their arma-
mentarium. However, the field of medi-
cine and surgery is so wide, and widen
ing each day. that as yet their work is
confined to restoring as far as possible
such features as have been injured by acct
dent or that are congenitally deformed.
and the mere beautlfication of slight fea-
tural imperfections is left to the beauty
culturtst.
The treatments pursued are in a large
measure so severe that they cannot be
| recommended and are undergone at a
risk. Much however, can be done to
remold and reshape the feshy party of
the face by patient, persistent effort
carried out in the privacy of ones home.
| Bony imperfections, of course, require
surgical interference-in some instances
| the cheeks appear excavated, owing to
the peculiar formation of the molar
| bones, and although the soft tissues COW
ering them may not be particularly thin.
still the face has hollow look that is
not pleasing to the eye and often causes
its owner genuine annoyance. Men can
easily cover up this defect by growing a
beard.
ways. First, of course, the health must
be looked after. and no local means are
ever effectual when the general condition
is below par. The local circulation should
be stimulated with massage treatment,
and all those preliminaries so frequently
entered into In these papers as to cleans
ing and softening the skin and putting IT
into a receptive state for the absorption
of fattening creams be fully carried out
Then the cream is applied and worked
into the hollow places with slow, circu-
lar movements, consuming considerable
time, after which the tissues are grasped
between the thumb and forefngers and
forcibly drawn out away from the bone
and allowed to recede This movement is
to be pursued ten, fifteen, twenty times;
its action is the same as the vacuum
cup, but safer in the hands of the mex
perienced. After this iced congresses
are laid over the parts manipulated for
five or ten minutes to further tone up
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