Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-08

laboratory. This completed taken TO the
operating room and turned to American sur
geon, connected the skin upper lower
part of his face fashioned him brand-new cheek.
This bears only the reminder Of a small scar,
which does not detract at all from his appearance.
bullet hole in the forehead simple matter andl
is Immediately filled in by the abdominal opera
ton that used in the of the plate printer It
is curious scientific only the mans own
flesh will suffice for operation of this kind that
Of his twin that there is the trouble of
ing material is often the case with trans
fusion' one young woman who visited the military
hospitals of Europe that protuberant lip
sometimes made of by the surgeons and the
case of soldier who gladly gave part of his in
order to supply portion of his which been
shot off in battle He is able with per-
feet equanimity.
Another brought into the American Ambulance;
hospital had fractured jaw and ugly void where
there should have been chin. After painstak-
Ing work, the surgeon able to rebuild this
face out of chaos. The dental department first at
tended to his jaws and then. the wound Clean the
surgeon succeeded in drawing the lips up in
stretching and molding his cheeks part,
of his chin the other part being formed by new
skin which grew up from his lower jaw This man,
of course. will always have face but IL IL had
not been for the skill of the surgeon would prob
ably not have at all
surgery not the only kind of surgery that
has developed in the European The wounded have
poured into the military hospitals throughout Europe
crowdng the wards and straning equipment to the
many 900 patients in four days, majority of
these are major operations-and, what more npor-
tant' majority of them pull through. common case
for instance, is that of who been wounded
in the leg and thereby severed which causes
instant paralysis. Under these circumstances, the
military surgeon the pieces nerve together
and the man is again able to walk Also there have
been several successful operations which the sur
geon has removed a bullet the heart or extracted
masses of decayed brains resulting head wounds
Indeed almost every where surgery is pos
sible all it has been amazingly successful. The
great trouble the fact that often the men are
days transportation between the battle
field hospital, which usually allows tetanus or
gangrene to in and their havoc Frozau
hands feet also of the great Affections
the and rarely durable by anything ampu-
tation although they treating them with hot
electrical During there are thou
of these
While the American hospitals in Europe pri-
marily for the wounded, they make also for the ad-
vance of science. The American Ambulance,
for example invited several American universities
including the Western Reserve university, OF C1eve-
land; Harvard university, Johns Hopkins and the
Universities Pennsylvania Chicago to send
representatives work in the hospital for periods of
three months a time. Thus we constantly
receiving a influx of ideas with the return of
young surgeons who in attending the military hos
pitfalls Europe, get practical experience in
month than they would in this country in a year.
Already citizens keeping their injured thumbs.
and victims of accidents having their beauty
preserved so that future American surgery like
that of Europe doubtless increasingly construc-
a result of the war.