The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 13, 1917, Section 2 Pages 9 to 12, Image 9
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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13,1917. Established 1891.
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NEW FACES FOR WAR WRECKS.|
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Wonderful Work in. Facial Recon- j
struetion Being Done.
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The latest developments of the!
i science of surgery in relation to the
war is to be found in a hospital
about ten miles from London. It is
^ the place where faces are remade"
and restored after the ravages of
r shrapnel and shell have done their j
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Doctors and surgeons who have!
tried their hands at facial surgery i
will recognize at once the importance
of this work. For the laymen, per- !
haps, a simpler statement, with examples,
is necessary.
The surgeons of the royal army1
medical corps at the Queen's Hos-4
pifal undertake to make a new face j
for those officers and men who have |
had part of their faces blown away
or riddled with shrapnel. In an- ex-:
perience of nearly two years they
have found no case absolutely hopeless,
and although they have had failures
in their work, they have sent
out something\ like a thousand patients
wit hfaces who come to them
only as pitiable wrecks of men.
One of the most terrible cases was
that of Private Blank, who came
with his lower jaw shot away. Today
he has a lower jaw, made from part
of one of his own ribs, and a chin,
with a beard growing on it, made
* form his own scalp. Before he
leaves the hospital he will be able
( to eat solid food and, what is even
I* ' more to him, he will feel at ease
when he walks along the street. He
will not look like himself, but he
will flook human. He has been
saved from a horror which need not
be described.
Other cases, where men's noses
have been shattered, or eyes shot
out, or chins broken, have been treated.
The ghastly distortions of the
face caused by wounds have been
put straight, and in many cases only
the slight scar of an ordinary skin
operation is visible to mark the'sur)
peon's cunning.
Nearly 2,000 Operations.
The Queen's Hospital, first at*
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setting near London," has to its credit j
nearly 2,000 operations, some of the
cases lasting nearly eighteen months
and still incomplete. Occasionally
when the surgeons are ready to perform
a further operation on a patient
the man refuses, declaring himself
Derfectly satisfied with his face.
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But in the early stages the men are j
pathetically anxious to be operated j
upon; they are continually gazing in
mirrors to mark the progress of their
features, and after an operation they
often crowd around the patient's bed
and compare notes. Sometimes they
advise the surgeons, saying that they
do or do not want an operation similar
to that performed on the man in I
the next bed.
, For the wounded and disfigured,
these operations hold out the one
hope of a return to life among men
and women. For those who are
safe from the horrors of war the
mere fact that so much can be done
for the unfortunates is a blessing
and a grand comfort. But apart
from 'these considerations the work
of the Queen's Hospital is a singular
and striking example of the
accomplishments of science in the
cause of humanity.
In November, 1916, Major (then
captain) H. D. Gillies was with the
Red Cross in France. Before the
war he had been a throat and nose
specialist in London and a famous
golfer. When he got leave he went
to Paris and there studied the work
of French facial surgeons. On his |
return he appealed to Sir Alfred I
Keogh, director-general of the army
medical service, and with his help
and the cordial cooperation of Sir
Arbuthnot Lane, Major Gillies was
able to start the first department for
facial surgery in England. He started
with 200 beds; when present extensions
are completed and arrange
ments are made for affiliated hospitals
there will be nearly 1,250 beds,
for this class of case.
Face Rebuilding Undaunted.
Facial surgery in practice, hardly
existed at the time. Beauty doctors,
of the highest class, used to
perform operations, at times, but the
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and poplins, $7>5(
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Serge and silk Skirts, tc
Shirt Waists of all kir
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Silk Petticoats, S3.4
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actual rebuilding of faces was known
chiefly in books. Eminent surgeons
had written, explaining that you
could addition to that, in this case,
and graft it on the other; but actual
practice had not been available. It
developed on Major Gillies and the
surgeons whom he gathered about
him to break new ground with each
case.
Xo two facial cases are the same.
A burn from shrapnel below the eye
may make it impossible to use that
side of the face at all in the operation;
one man may need the bridge
of his nose raised, another may need
the nostrils built up. In making jaws
various methods have been applied,
in books, such as building from a rib
or from an arm. In practice each
case must be studied with far more
attention than a lawyer gives to his
case; there are few precedents, except
those established by practice in
the last two years.
In the hospital one man lies with
his future nose growing in his forehead.
When it is thoroughly grafted
an operation will swing it into
place. Another man, with his hand
so badlv shot that he cannot use his
fingers, will lie for months his finger
bound over his nose, until it grows
into place, and a nose is made from
a useless finger.
The case mentioned, in which a
jaw was created, is one 01 tne most
complicated yet handled by Major
Gillies. The actual making of bone
and cartilage from one part of the
body to another had been known
. before, although the operation remains
one of extreme delicacy and I
difficulty. An operation was made
on the patient's scalp and a band
was taken out, swung over the nose
and put into place under the new
chin-bone. To demonstrate how this
was done Major Gillies took a handkerchief
and put it over a man's head
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from ear to ear. Then while the man
held the cloth at both ears Major
Gillies swung it down until it fitted.
The hair from the top of the scalp is
now growing a fine beard. For a
year and a half?since the battle of
the Somme, Private Blank has either
been recovering from his wound or
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from his operation. The work is
nearly finished.
How Burnt Faces are Treated.
In the case of burnt faces the
work presents a new difficulty because
the flesh on which the graft is
to be made is not healthy. One
method is to lift skin from the chest
and draw it over the face, at the
same time building up those features
which have been broken down. In
this, as in all cases, long pondering
and close study, preceded the operation,
and here, as frequently, an
unforeseen development, in the
course of the actual operation, permitted
a variation of plan.
Another achievement of the hospital
is the perfection of eye-making.
The false eye is now projected, as
the normal eye, and the cartilage
so placed that the two eyes move absolutely
together, as they do in a perfect
pair of eyes. It is often impossible
to distinguish the false from
the true. This work is the independent
invention of Capt. J. L. Rynard,
of South Africa, who is Major Gillies's
chief colleague. |
Under Lieut. Col. Colvin the management
of the hospital has been so
successful that representatives of the
rjnmininns havA undertaken the es
tablishment of facial hospitals nearby,
.so as to be close to the center.
It has been suggested that American
facial surgeons should establish
their hospital somewhere near the
Queen's so that Jthey, too, could reap
the benefit of this long experience.
Meanwhile it is interesting to note
that across the channel two Americans,
one Hon. Major Valadier, of
French descent, and the other, Hon.
Major Kaazanjian, a member of the
Harvard unit, are doing similar work
to that done by Major Gillies in England.?Gilbert
Selden.
. The food administration has seized
16,000 tons of sugar which was
held in New York. ,
Accord^ig to the department of
agriculture, rats and mice destroy
each year property worth more than
$200,000,000, equaling the gross
earnings of an army of 200,000 men.
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.'ats, $5.00 each.
^eaters, $1.00 and up
10 each.
sr Shoes $5.00 to $7.501
al Shoes at old prices, $4.0
>5.00 pair.
nit, Shawknit, and Luxite h?
55c to 60c pair.
hirts, $1.25 to $2.50 eac
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coats to close out. Just cor
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Drunkards Sign Pledges.
Three hundred self-confessed;
drunkards signed the pledge at the j
Salvation Army's annual boozers'
day service in the Fourteenth street'
barracks in New York one day re-1
cently. In the tattered, bed- j
raggled crowd which gathered part-1
ly to get the dinner they knew would |
be served and partly in the hope that:
they might get the inspiration which j
would lead them out of the gutter, i
was one lone woman. A Salvation j
Army lassie took her in tow and be- I
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for prayers to help her "keep sober." j
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A force of 52 persons has been sent,
to France by the treasury, department j
to audit the accounts of the array
there.
~ SUSPECT YOUR KIDNEYS
Too Many Bamberg People Neglect
j Early Symptoms of Kidney
Trouble.
If your back is lame?if you fee.'
dull, tired and all-worn-out?
If you have hard headaches, backaches
and dizzy spells?
If the kidney secretions are disordered?
Suspect your kidneys and "take a
stitch in time."
Use Doan's Kidney Pills, the timetried,
home-endorsed kidney remedy.
It may save you from so**lo serious
kidney trouble.
Make use of the experience of Mrs.
Bessie Atteberry, Railroad Ave.,
Bamberg. She says: "My kidneys
were weak and I had headaches;
when I got up in the morning I could
hardly do my housework. I tired
easily and had headaches and dizzy
spells. Sometimes dark objects
seemed to float before my eyes and
I knew from other symptoms my kidneys
were disordered. I used Doan's
Kidney Pills with such great relief
that I have very little kidney trouble
now."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
SimDly ask for a kidney remedy?get
Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that
Mrs. Atteberry had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
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TAX NOTICE.
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The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15th day of October, 1917, until the
15th day of March, 1918, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1918, until the 31st day of January,
1918, a penalty of one per cent, will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1918, a
penany 01 z per cent, win De aaaea
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1918, until.the 15th
day of March, 1918, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
THE LEVY.
For State purposes 8% mills
For county purposes 7 Vz mills
Constitutional school tax....3 mills
Total 19 mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills
Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills
Olar, No. 8 9 mills
Salem, No. 9 4 mills
St. John's, No. 10 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 8 mills
Binnaker's, No. 12 3 mills
Lemon Swapip, No. 13 4 mills
Bamberg, No. 14 ...9 mills
Oakland, No. 15 8 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills
Colston, No. 18 4 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills .
Denmark, No. 21 6% mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 13 mills
Lees, No. 23 4 imills
Hey ward, No. 24 ; 2 mills
All persoris between the ages of ; /i
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
except Confederate veterans and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar. 1
Capitation dog tax 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1917, are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not - >v*,
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before th^?
1st of January, 1918.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from .
the 15th day of October, 1917, until
the 1st day of March, 1918. \
G. A. JENNINGS, V ,
Treasurer Bamberg? County.
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