The sun., 1916-10-07
WONDERS OF WAR
SURGERY IN MOVIE
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looked much like the opening In a leg
gins which had not been laced. And
promptly DIT. Carrel brought forth a get
Of laces, twined the lsces deity around
opposite buttons and laced up the long
wound until the edges OF the torn skin
rested tightly together the length OF the
abrasion.
The wound now was 'sewed" up su-
perfcially and yet no needle or thread
had penetrated the soldiers leg. the leg
now looking az II Logging laces had closed
IL up the length OF the calf. And DIR.
Carrel's method had the advantage. so
surgeons said later. Of enabling the
surgeon to get at the wound easily dur
Ing subsequent healing processes II fur
ther treatments were necessary. All he
had to do was to "unlace" the leg.
Surgery Of Face and Jaw.
There were motion pictures OF plastic
surgery OF the face and Jaw by DIR. Pont
at the Zayr Hospital at Lyon mex Con-
valescent soldiers first were shown
walking happily toward the camera.
Each patients face was lined and crisis
! crossed In a way hat left no doubt that
the machine guns or shrapnel Of tho
Germans had hit him in the face. And
each brought toward the movie camera
a plaster cast Of his face.
The plaster cast showed how he
looked when he was brought into the
hospital. Respect for the feelings OF
readers forbids details % what the SOL
diers' faces looked like when the casts
were made. except TO say that missing
jaws were common. But the face of the
convalescent. thanks to the wonder sur
gerry Of DR.. Pont. vas almost the face of
the patient before the Germans had got
him,
And then Or. Pont was shown In the
act Of putting artificial noses and ears
upon the heads OF grinning potlus who
had lost these organs. but now sat and
grinned In front OF the camera while
they were being made to look like them
selves again. Some showed improvement,
the new noses being more classic than
their own
Professor o. Laurent. a French sur
geon of the Gen. Miles type OF face and
figure. came before the movie camera In
the operating room Of the Grand Palais
finally, and with the aid Of numerous
assistants and nurses removed at close
range a shrapnel ball from the heart OF
n French soldier.
Removing Bullet rom Heart.
The soldier. a hne looks lad. was
laid Vol the operating table and
a~nnsthetized. His chest. heaving under
the anesthetic. was barred. The incision
was made, the hands Of assistants darted
forward to stop the fow OF blood. fur
Their incisions followed and then the sur
geon brought forth the bit OF metal.
"And the patient probably died." men.
tally commented the lone reporter still In
the projecting room. as thoughts OF the
way the surgeon had slashed into thu
soldiers breast came to mind
But a moment later all was sunlight
on the screen. 1t was a flower bedcclted
hospital yard. and down the gravel wall
came a young soldier of Francc--smi!
ing. as they all were in the otherwise sac
pictures of France seen yesterday. HI
was the same lad. brighter eyed now
| after his long rest and recovery. who a,
the beginning OF the picture had beer
carried into the operating room to hav'
the bullet removed from his heart.
III stond sheepishly In his uniform
close to the camera. Just as all men
great and small. stand s%heepishly wheI
u5 alone before the movie nan Ant
u,n h, reached toward his throat an
pulled out q stickpin and held It up wit
"a laugh. The ornament" ut the pin wa
the shrapnel ball that a. surgeon Ia.
taken out Of the soldiers vssrt.