The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-29
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WOUNDED MEN
Red Cross Worker Tells Of Mar
! vels. Of Reconstruction
I! SURGERY -.
EASY TO eIYEMAA New FACE

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soldiers Brought. to Hospital In France
With countenances. Merely elurs
: '' Sent Away Win Nor
NAL Vlsaaes.
New York.-Miss Eva Hammond Of
he American Red Cross, who returned
aeeentlx from Europe after nearly five
xears,, service with, the: allied armies,
and who wears decorations Of the Brit
ssh and French governments, told Of
che wonderful results achieved IN re.
constructive surgery, by the surgeons
Is the American and allied armies.
Miss Hammond, whose home Is In San
francisco, was attached, to the stan
Il the American Red Cross hospital
% Neuilly, France:
1T is surprising how. many things
Gan be done to a man by a shell and
aeave him stu Irvine" Miss Hammond
said. "And the things that can be
done to make it worth while for him
% 20 on living are even more surpris-
DE: 80 "
Dental surgery is one profession
aAat has gone ahead from the i'm
1etus Of the war in leaps and bounds.
She marvels that the doctors of dem
astry performed were not entirely up.
lmown, before the war, but. they We're
u The Theoretical stage. There was
10 chance to, put these theories into
practice, except In widely isolated
cases. The war proved that those
theories were sound and practicable;
e afforded them means Of develop
nent. There Is nothing impossible In
Sental surgery now"
.. Make New Faces.
Il have seen men come into that hos
pital. Of ours with bloody blurs where
heir faces had been. Fed through
4nhes and kept alive, I have seen their
remaining bits of skin stretched over
the raw places, which filled with new
aesh under careful treatment, and
finally they have gone out into the
Horld with new faces.
e"There was one man, I remember,
who came in to US with his entire face
xpne-nothing left but one eye. We fed
Aim through tube, built, him metal
Sw, fitted with teeth, and made him
Wok like a human being again. ex.
eept that he had NO nose-only two
apstrils. We found him a false nose
lid pair Of spectacles attached, hid
liz the SCARED flesh around his miss
~ eye, and making him look SO much
Ne another man that one would not
1eve glanced at him q second time
note his deformity. -s.,. ~
'.Apother man came to Us with the
xeater part of his face intact bnt
Nth no nose. It Had been shot on!
e6mpletely, leaving his flesh fiat from
eSin to forehead. We made him d.
use to At him. From the place where
Is nose had Joined to his forehead
here hung little wisp OF Skin. This
vas pulled down, stretched every day,
apd kept dry and healthy by an anti
septic powder Final it grew, to the
eprrect length for d nose. Then we
apened his wrist and grated a piece
u bone to the place where his nose
should have been, binding arm and
ssce together until the operation was
spmpleted. Then we adjusted the skin,
which filled out with healthy flesh. and
Mere was new nose!"
Easy to Give Man New Face.
"A man whose face had been hang
ne down from below his eyes, Miss
hammond says, was q simple case. His
tSce was sewn back In place.
Fl met him on the street ID Paris"
lie says; "just two days before I sail
Il, and his face looked just as usual.
Except for slight scar which run
siong under his eyes and across his
use. In time it will almost dlsap-
near. A man who had been the victim
Z freak shell which had ripped out
sxery one Of his teeth, leaving him
Otherwise unframed, was supplied
With new gums and a complete set of
ubper and lower false teeth. I have
sHen seen q man with his brain bulg-
dir down over his eye from Jagged
lit In his skull. The brain has been
carefully pressed back In place, and
eAeus head fitted: with a metal plate.
IRIS operation leaves the patient per
Ahefiy normal 30 far as hts mental COLI
dStion is concerned. He is, however,
sbable to go about much in the hot
sSSnn, Al; strong, heat affects him. and
B cannot drink because 1t irritates
IL BRAIN" .
IsoSistImes, Miss Hammond said. q
nekient would be brought into the hos
Stal.swsthl big LEI smashed oapiecss.
135tead Of making a hurried amputa-
IN, every effort was made TO save
III injGred limb. II Wis pat Into .
1fsme, and in a short time the smashed
1nes would take 9; position, knit and
HIN to grow together, while the splin-
aissd bits would gradually work their
WY out 6f the leg through the desh.
81 x3Adop* Me.4.t su.tem... y.
,Aooion-Among English women tho
sRstom Of going without hats is raQid-
y spreading. Lady Rhohdda, Miss