PLASTIC SURGERY.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1923, Page 3

PLASTIC SURGERY.

LONDON. Oct. 25. Nearly till facia! deformities, which cause acute mental stilfering and unlit people for work, can now be remedied by plastic surgery, which means rcstoraitnm ol a lost or iniurt'O part bv transference of healthy skin and cartilage from another part ot the body. Hitherto this treatment- has been available only for soldiers wounded in the war and rich civilians, hut at St. Andrew’s Hospital, Dollis Hill, N.W., there lias now been provided a small building where patients ol the professional and middle classes can have defonnitie- corrected. Wlu'ii a reporter visited the bo-pl--1, the matron. Sister M. Igna'iuI, Id me of many people, so disfigured that they could not Work or he seen cut oi doors, who were completely cured. The following were among the A woman, who fell on a fire and had her iaw and hall her face burned av.av. was .-enl out with a new jaw, new eyebrows, and practically a new lace. A girl had her eye. her nose, and cither parts of her lace blown away by a gun accident. .Her lace was completely restored. Another girl, without a nose. was supplied with one from her own skill ami cartilage.

A baby, with a withered ear, has, I, v skm-dra 1 ting, been supplied with a

perfect ear. A mir-e was so badly burned that her jaw wa- drawn down, by eontrne linn of the -kin. to hoi chest. Major Ciilic-, (he plastic -urgent!. grafted skin 1 rom her abdomen on her arm: when the -kin had taken root on the arm he severed it from the abdomen, raised the arm to the neck, and grafted the -kill there. The nurse is hack at work. These opera 1 inns are ext rcne ly delicate and often very prolonged. Throe or four hours is not unusual, the matron explained. and sometimes ~n operation which begins at 1 p.m. doe-. lint finish until S o’clock at night. An international clinic of plastic surgery is to he established at -s. Andrew’s TTo-pftal. to which doctors from America and France have decided to come.