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...surgeon. Joseph Albert Sullivan, 34, is a husky, combative Toronto surgeon. Several years ago they studied together in Manhattan under the late Surgeons Sir Charles Ballance and Arthur Baldwin Duel, both of whom died a few months ago. Surgeons Ballance and Duel taught the younger surgeons how to repair facial palsy. In that disease the facial nerve controlling all the muscles which give character and expression to the features, degenerates. A chill, a mastoid operation or a fracture may cause facial palsy. No matter what the cause, one side of the face falls slack as a wet towel...
Electricity may cure the diseased facial nerve and restore action to the features. When that fails, Surgeons Tickle and Sullivan splice a piece of healthy nerve taken from the patient's thigh into the dying nerve of his face. The frequent success of this reparative operation was spoiled by an occasional misadventure. In some patients the operation caused a mad, uncontrollable jigging and grimacing of the treated half of the face...
...cause and prevention of such facial fluttering caused the longtime friends to disagree before the whole convention of the American Academy of Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology in Manhattan last week. Dr. Sullivan declared that "these movements were due to the fact that the transplants were made too soon, that is, when the nerve cells of the injured facial nerve were in a state of physiological unbalance with degeneration and healing going on at the same time. When the paralysis immediately follows a mastoid operation, the nerve may be under pressure and should be exposed at once. When the nerve is destroyed sufficiently...
Students of the whisker,* noting that not one Bishop Hiller cut his facial hair alike, observed the following beards on the following faces...
...Facial Neuralgia ranks close to angina pectoris as a racking pain. Cause of such neuralgia has never been ascertained. Usually some obscure infection is suspected. The pain may last for years, or it may return from time to time. Drugs only allay the pain, never cure it. Some surgeons stop the neuralgia by cutting the offending nerve, thus preventing it from carrying its message of pain to the brain. This operation occasionally paralyzes the painful side of the face, causes the features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying...