Evening journal., 1919-08-08
men MADE over
BY ARMY DOCTORS
American Red Cross Work
er Tell Of Marvellous
Achievements
EASY TO GIVE
ONE NEW FACE

NEW YORK, Aug. s.--Nfiss Eve Ham
mopd Of the American Red Cross, who
returned from Europe after nearly flvC
years service with the Allied armies
and who wears decorations ~ 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 I'm san
Francisco. was attached 10 the staff %
the American Red Cross Hospital in
Neuilly. France.
1T is surprising how many things
can be done 10 a man by q shell and
leave him still living Miss Ham
mond said. "And the things that can
be done 10 make t worth while for
him 10 go on living are even more sur
nTisng they were surprising TO us.
10 whom they were an everyday mat
ter. and TO the initiated ;hey were
revelation.
Dental surgery Is one profession
that has gone ahead from the i'm
petus OF the war IN leaps and bounds.
The marvcls that the doctors Of dem
iisiry performed were not entirely
unknown 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;
IL afforded them means Of develop
ment. There is nothing impossible in
dental surgery Inv"
81 have seen men come into that
hospital Of ours with bloody blurs
where their faces had been Fed
through tubes and kept alive, I have
seen their remaining bits OF skin
stretched over the raw places, which
filled with new flesh under careful
treatment and finally they have gonl |
out into the world with new faces.
"There was one man. ] remember, |
who camee into MS with his entire face |
gone-nothing left but one eye. We |
'ed him through a tube, built him a /
metal Jaw fitted with teeth, and made
him look like human being again. ex-
'ept that he had no nose. only two nos
rils. We found him a false nose with /
, pair OF spectacles attached. hiding the
Scared flesh around his missing eye,
md making him look so much like 1
,ther men that one would not have
glanced at him a second time TO note
Ms deformity.
Another man came to us with the
greater part OF his face intact, hut with |
no nose. II had been shot or COM /
pletely, leaving his flesh nat from chin |
n. forehead We made him a nose TO |
~ him. From the place where his nose |
had Joined 10 HIS forehead there hung |
a little wisp of skin. This was pulled |
down. stretched every day and kept
dry and healthy by an antiseptlc pow
der. Finally. II grew 10 the correct |
length for n nose.
Then we opened his wrist an grated |
! piece of bone 10 the place where his
1850 should have been. binding arm
md face together until the operation 4
vas completed. Then we adjusted the |
kin, which nlled out with healthy II
lcsh. and there was now nose I"
4 man whose face had been hang
1g down from below his eyes. Miss
hammond says was a simple case. His
ace was sewn back In place.
II met him on the street in Paris
he says. Just two days before 7 sail
d, and his face looked Just MS usual.
ycept for a llght scar which ran along
nder his eyes and across his nose. In II
Inc II VIII almost disappear A man
'ho had been the victim OF a freak
hell which had ripped out every one
his teeth leaving him otherwise I'M