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...Bettman, only specialist in plastic surgery in the Pacific Northwest, got the idea of combining tannic acid and silver nitrate for burns from his procedure for removing tattoo marks. To remove tattoos he injects tannic acid and silver nitrate solutions with a tattooing machine over the original marks. At once a black coagulum forms. The leathery surface, with the design dimly visible, peels off in a few days...
...this book, which consists of lectures delivered in connection with the Exhibition of British Art at Burlington House in January 1934, Fry was faced with the acid test of his career. The British Isles have never fostered or produced the kind of distinction in the graphic and plastic arts which one would ordinarily expect, in view of the success of English poetry...
When a woman with a great beak of a nose (macrorrhinia) and no more chin than a rabbit (microgenia), pays a plastic surgeon to beautify her, the obvious procedure would be for the surgeon to graft upon the chin what he removes from the nose. However, the logic of such an operation seems to have occurred to only one plastic surgeon in all the last decade's welter of face-cutting. Dr. Gustave Aufricht of Manhattan, who has transferred 21 big noses to 21 little chins, last week laid claim to this originality in the American Journal of Surgery...
...months in a small office in the Department of Commerce Building in Washington Sculptor Reuben Nakian has been modeling the heads of New Dealers, chosen for their "plastic value" rather than official importance. Last week he paused long enough to give his opinion of his sitters...
Technically this inner quality is manifested in a tremendous vitality expressed with an understanding of the values of rhythm and mass. And there is a often fine organic unity which shows in a plastic sense, surpassing that of most civilized peoples. This is attributable to the wooden medium which of its nature gives a flexibility lacking in stone. The surfaces in particular are of unusual quality and reflect the laborious workmanship involved in the creation...