The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-26
DOCTORS REMAKEi
WOUNDED men
Red Cross Worker Tells of Mar
vels Of Reconstruction
Surgery.
EASY TO GIVE MAN new FACE
Soldiers Brought to Hospital In France
With countenances Merely 5Iurs
Sent Away With Nor.
NAL Visages.


New York.-Miss Eva Hammond Of
the American Red Cross, who returned
recently from Europe after nearly five
years. service with the allied armies,
and who wears decorations of the Brit
ish and French governments, told OF
the wonderful results achieved in re-
constructive surgery by the surgeons
of the American and allied armies.
Miss Hammond, whose home is In San
Francisco, was attached 10 the staff
Of the American Red Cross hospital
in Neuilly, France.
cit is surprising how many things
can be done TO a man by a shell and
leave him still living" Miss Hammond
said. "And the things that can be
done to make it worth while for him
to go on living are even more surpris-
ing.
"Dental surgery is n profession
that has gone ahead from the i'm
petus of the war in leaps and bounds.
The marvels that the doctors of den
tistry performed were not entirely un-
known before the war, but they were
in the theoretical stage. There was
no chance to put these theories into
practice, except in widely isolated
cases. The war proved that those
theories were sound and practicable;
1t afforded them a means of develop
ment. There Is nothing impossible In
dental surgery now"
Make New Faces.
81 have seen men come into that hos
pital of ours with bloody blurs where
their faces had been. Fed through
tubes and kept alive, / have seen their
! remaining bits of skin stretched over
the raw places, which filed with new
flesh under careful treatment, and
finally they have gone out into the
world with new faces.
"There was n man, / remember,
who came in to us with his entire face
gone-nothing left but one eye. We fed
him through a tube, built him a metal
Jaw, fitted with teeth, and made him
look like a human being again, ex-
cept that he had no nose-only two
nostrils. We found him a false nose
and a pair of spectacles attached, hid
ing the SCARED flesh around his miss
Ing eye, and making him look SO much
like another man that one would not
have glanced at him a second time
to note his deformity.
another man came to us with the
greater part of his face intact. but
with no nose. 1t had been shot off
completely, leaving his flesh fiat from
chin to forehead. We made him a
nose to fit him. From the place where
his nose had Joined to his forehead
there hung a little wisp of skin. This
was pulled down, stretched every day,
and kept dry and healthy by an anti
septic powder. Finally 1t grew to the
correct length for a nose. Then we
opened his wrist and grated a piece
Of bone to the place where his nose
should have been, binding arm and
face together until the operation was
completed. Then we adjusted the skin,
which filed out with healthy flesh, and
there was a e nose!"
Easy to Give Man New Face.
A man whose face had been hang
ing down from below his eyes. Miss
Hammond says, was a simple case. His
face was sewn back in place.
81 met him on the street in Paris
she says, "just two days before / sail
ed, and his face looked just as usual
except for a slight scar which rar
along under his eyes and across his
nose. In time 1t will almost disap
pear. A man who had been the victim
of a freak shell which had ripped out
every one of his teeth, leaving hin
otherwise unframed, raj supplied
with new gums and a complete set Of
upper and lower false teeth. ! have
even seen a man with his brain bulg
ing down over his eye from a jagged
cut in his skull. The brain has beer
carefully pressed back In place, ant
the head fitted with a metal plate
This operation leaves the patient per
fectly normal so far as his mental con
dition Is concerned. He is, however
unable to go about much in the no
sun, as strong heat affects him, and
he cannot drink because 1t irritate'
the BRAIN"
Sometimes, Miss Hammond said. I
patient would be brought into the hos
pital with his leg smashed to pieces
Instead of making a hurried amputa
ton, every effort was made to saw
the injured limb. It was put into
frame, and in a short time the smashed
bones would take a position, knit, ant
begin to grow together, while the spin
tered bits would gradually work thei
way out Of the leg through the flesh.
Adopt No-Hat Custom.