The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1916-06-29


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forces, who was minus an eye and
part of his cheek, and British private,
whose left cheek and nose were fright
fully torn by shrapnel bullet All
these men will now be able to follow
their own trades, instead of having to
exist, stunned by all save the most
stoical of their fellows, on the prince
ly pension of rs shillings $3.50 week,
which is all that their country can af-
ford to pay in cases of total inca
pacity."
Woods War Service.
Soon after the beginning of the war
Col. Bruce Porter of the Royal Army
Medical corps made a speech TO the
members of the Chelsea Arts club, of
which Derwent Wood is a member.
The colonel asked his hearers to make
a sacrifice of their art, and if they were
too old to fight to accept the lowest
service in the ranks of the r. A. M. G.
A goodly number of the Chelsea artists
II. Vi. u. IL,
and among them was Derwent Wood.
At forty-four he is not available for
active service. His father came from
Harrisburg, Pa, married an English
woman and settled down at Keswick,
in Cumberland, where Derwent Wood
was born.
He began his artistic career at
Karlsruhe, later returning to England.
and becoming student at the Royal
academy. There he won the gold
medal and the travelling scholarship,
which took him for some time to Italy.
Thomas Brock, R. A., one of the most
famous of British sculptors. Honors
were awarded him at the Paris salon,
and four years ago he was made an
associate of the Royal academy. Ex-
amples of his statuary are in the pos
j. Phipps of Westbury, l.. l., and sew
eral other well-known American col
lectors.
Moved to Aid Wounded.
Having Joined the r. A. NJ c. as an
ordinary private Wood was sent out to
London military hospital. 1t is one
of the biggest in the metropolis, with
more than 1900 beds. At the begin
ming the new orderlys duties were not
of an exalted nature, one of them be-
ing to assist in rolling new asphalt
path. In a few days, however, the
sculptor was drafted into the wards,
where he began by taking plaster casts
of damaged limbs. He soon became a
master of splints. And in the course
of his work he saw the saddest sights
of the war, the men with the mutt
lated faces.
Moved to intense compassion, Der
went Wood went to his colonel one
day and said: Let me see what can
do for these poor fellows. / believe
that can do something anyway" The
officer consented gladly.
Il spent months in experiments"
said Wood, before l undertook my
first case. This was in December last,
my patient being Trooper Everitt My
masks as we call them, consist of
plates of thin copper, silvered and then
painted to match the hue of the pa
TENTS skin. They are light to wear,
they fit like gloves and the men de-
clare that they give no discomfort
whatever Yes, they are intended to
be removed at night, exactly like a set
Of false teeth, and they are easily
cleaned with little potato juice Most
of them can be kept in place by means
of ether gum, such as actors use, but
in cases of artificial eyes and noses,
prefer to build them on to spectacles,
which assist to keep them in place and
which themselves are held firm by
means of couple of small straps at
the back.
Plaster Mold Made.
I'm the beginning a plaster mold of
the face is secured. This is dried and
clay or plasticine squeeze is OBJ
tanned from the mold, giving a positive
model of the patients dressed wound
and the surrounding healthy tissues;
this is fixed to a board on a modelling
stand and a sitting from the. patient
with the undressed wound is obtained.
Having completed my model pro
coed to cast it, and procure the plaster
positive of the wound and its sur
rounding structures. Another sitting
is had and the portions which are to
be hidden eventually by the metal
plate are modelled in clay or wax, the
edges being blended to the uninjured
portions of the face, thus effectively
masking any trace of wounds This is
once more nodded in plaster, and the
edge of the proposed plate being
marked on the negative, cast is OBJ
tanned. edges are trimmed to marking
and the model is ready to have the ar.
tificial eve fitted to the lids.