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knife USED TO
cure WRINKLES
Latest Methods in Facial Sur.
gerry Demonstrated.
OPERATION LEAVES NO SCARS
New York Doctor Gives Exhibition BE.
fore French Scientists and a Num-
Der Of Doctoro-Common Safety.
Razor Blade Plays important Part
In Operation on Woman Fifty Years
Of Age-Success Lies in Technique,

In Operation on Woman FIFTY Years
Of Age-Succees Lies in Technique,
Beauty dOctOrins as q n,Jdein SCI
ence was demonstrated to doctors and
newspaper men when DR.. Leroy X.
Stoddard performed an operation for
the removal Of eye wrinkles In New
York. with DIR. Julien Borguet, the
French plastic surgeon, as witness and
commentator
A common safety razor blade played
an important role In the operation,
which was performed OH II gray-liaired
business woman presented under the
fictitious name of "Mrs. Arthur Man
ming" The operation Doctor Stoddard
at the outset characterized as "unniys-
teri0us and a practical application of
well-known methods Of scaress sur
gerry"
Talked as He Worked.
As he made inclsiOns and stitched
the operator INDUCED in running fire
of comment.
"The success Of the operation is a
question Of technique only" he said,
ns he injected small quantity Of
per cent cocain in her eyelih. "The
secret OF scarless surgery Is in the
first move"
He made It as he Spoken swift
snip OF sharp scissor blades across the
wrlnkled lid which lifted symmet-
rlcnl oval strip of skin tissue.
Judgment of the exact quantity OF
tissue to he removed must he made
first" he continued. "and If the .iudg-
ment and subsequent execution have
been correct the wound will close OF
itself. The skin will fall rather than
be drawn into place"
AS he spoke the incislon closed,
seemingly by natural action OF the
weight of the lid, and II was seen that
the wrinkle had fallen at the clip Of
the doctors instrument as long nails
fall Mt the clip CT manlcurist's scis-
sOrs. To hold and mend the "sculptur-
ing Of flesh which Ind been accom-
plished, the doctor drew about twenty
fine stitches In the wound. Through
out, the woman. conscious of every
thing but pain. cohversed w.t.. the sur
geoh and the nurses
How RE Came TO Use Razor Blade.
The safety-razor blade came into
play on the other eye. which had been
operated on four DAYS agn and was
now so nearly mcnded that the stitches
could he withdrawn. Holding the thin
fake of steel between thumb and fore
finger, the doctor rapidly severed the
white silk knots. He explained TINT
one day, hampered by the failure of
any surgical instrument to fiji the deli
cate requirements of this work. he
threw an awkward surgical knife on
the floor and picked mp n rnZor blade
He has used one ever since.
Doctor Stoddnrd has practlced plns-
tic surgery twelve years. Only In the
last five, he said. had he solved the
problem Of scnress work, which he
has applied not only to cases OF
beauty-mOurning women but to the
disfgurements of soldiers cut by
shrapnel and shell splinters and hasti-
ly sewn together In battlefield hos
pltals.
With Doctor BOurguet he discussed
the application of thelI science TO
cases Of mental disorders originating
In the self-consclOusness of men and
women afflicted with facial disfigure-
ments. Doctor Stoddard told of n law
yer who had become so conscious of a
facial Oddity resulting from the
growth OF masses of skin tissue around
his eyebrows that he had finally re-
fused to fucc jury. An operation
was performed to eliminate the hang
Ing brows and the lawyer was cured
Of his Obsesslon.
Commenting on the operation, Doc
tor BOurguet said Doctor Stoddarrs
work included methods different from
those in use in Paris. He intends to
make his observations the subject OF
reports TO the Paris Academy of Med-
nj