BUILDING A NEW FACE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 5

BUILDING A NEW FACE.

BOSTON SURGEON'S SENSATIONAL ;. To :hiiild/a.'hew faco has been sucbesifullv acconipliShed' in. Boston,;, Mass.,' and, according, to reports-published; from .America, . the new;-art,'will,.open -up/.a.career .for- skilled practitioners.- -. ■ , -' '. .Stephen Oalaßro';(2s ; yeari of age) is said -to have-'been discharged from tho Mass. 'Geiieral Hospital literiillyr,with new features and scalp, following.'.a i series. of; operations l , among, the most remirkable.-.itt surgical 'history,! and extending over-, a, of 'three years, And dons' as a .'work 6i scientific interest by-Dr. Charles Porter, of the Harvard Medical School; Cal- ' bbro, ; - -Who, was' shorribly C burned, and ; was thought. to be for life'in Sn eiplo6ioh lb. 1995,, submitted < himself for - treatment uni.March 1906. The face, neck, scalp, and arms were one mass Of turtle-like skin, known to . the medioal-, profession as ohelyoid tissue. On Sunday he left the hospital '.with a new forehead/ .new-,.eyelids;': new cheeks, a new ';hoso, a pew,chin; a'new neck, and : finally a now'head of .hair. ■ ..

■: Calabro' was. given ether thirty times.. • The operations, ,- consisted.. of ; skin - transplantation and grafting. .Much ,of the, skin' was taken from,- other parts. of Calabro's: body, •: but his brother 'Thomas' and other .'members "of'-' his family sacrificed portions; to aid; their brother.One of tin greatest difficulties . met with iu tho treatment ,Of Calabro ; was; making a new head ,of hair. -Nearly , the '.entire, scalp ihad to', be replaced; : ;.but-this, was ;fihblly accomplished, ttnd. now; the young man'ihas a.prolifio orop of ; hair, as good ,as new,, which comes well down overhis forehead.; He has returned to his brother's' home ,in CJuinby, where' he has a little farm. He intends, he says, to raise fanoyj. poultry, for. the fliarket, and if this fails he can. always make a gobd.livelihood here by public exhibition.