Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1937, Page 32

B—14 NEW SCALP GIVEN WOMAN VIGTIM Sliln-grafting Operation Re- ported by Dr. James A. Cabhili, jr. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A skin-grafting operation by which & Washington woman was provided with an entirely new scalp and right ear was reported at the scientific assembly of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia yesterday by Dr. James A. Cahill, jr. She was the victim of one of less than 100 complete scalpings in medi- cal records, aside from those in In- dian warfare. A seamstress in a local factory, her scalp and ear were pulled off when her hair was caught in the flywheel of a machine. Treat- ment in most of the past cases either has been a complete failure or an indifferent success. The Washington surgeon used the #o-called “tube-flap” method. two large flaps of skin were cut loose from the woman's back at about the level of the shoulders. Only the upper ends remained attached. They | were twisted around so that the outer sides would be uppermost. Then the loose ends were grafted to the severed edge fo the scalp on the lower part | of the neck. Now Has Only Thin Scar. When the blood supply had been established in this flap from its new sttachment the other end was cut Joose from the shoulder, spread over the entire scalp and attached to the severed edge on the forehead. The graft took well, with the result that the woman now has only a thin scar on the right side off her forehead as a memento of the accident. The missing ear was replaced with the flap from the right side of the back in much the same fashion. This skin tissue was moulded with & series of operations so that it took the form of a normal ear. To com- plete the job a bit of cartilage was removed from the side and grafted in to form an ear flap. The entire procedure required nearly eight months. Successful surgical treatment of the strange condition of “webbed fin- gers an hereditary abnormality which quite often is reported in medi- cal records, was reported by Dr. Rob- ert E. Moran. In this condition the fingers of one, sometimes both, hands are grown completely together so that the hand is practically useless. Surgi- eal treatment in the past has been Quite discouraging. When the fingers ‘were cut apart skin did not grow tufficiently to cover the separated eides. As a resuly the fingers were doubled up and the hand was still useless In these hands Dr. Morgan found between each two fingers what he calls a “butterfly area” of inadequate tissue. It extends for some distance into the side of each finger and is shaped like a butterfly with partly opened wings. In t he new operation the fingers ere first separated and then the “butterfly area” cut away. They are replaced by skin tissue from some other part of the body. Then the fingers are pressed together again, with the result that once more the thand is webbed. But after the new tissue has had a cance to become well established in its new environment JoeTTe CoLBERT GOT HER MAN WHEN THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL IN"ITHAPOENED ONE NIGHT® How 1oA Lupino WON HER MAN BY KNOCKING HiM § COLD IN “THEGAY DesPERADO® First, | Dr. Moran again cuts the fingers apart. There now is plenty of skin to cover them. The result is a per- fectly normal hand. Strange Nervous Maladies. Strange nervous maladies were de- scribed by Dr. F. J. Eichenlaub. One is trichotillomania, or hair pulling. It is found both in mental hospitals and orphanages. Victims pull out patches of hair all over the scalp, producing & bizarre patchwork | of baldness. In the mental hospital, Dr. Eicnenlaub said, it is usually due to an obsession of some kind, Sut in | an orphanage it may occur as a epidemic. One child has somethin; actually wrong with the scalp which | causes patches of hair to fall out. He becomes an object of curiosity and | concern to those in charge. Othe children are jealous of the attentio he gets and try to make themselve: ook like him. | Another is neurotic excoriation. | Eruptions appear on the skin in bi- zarre forms, such as straight lines and sharp angles, never followed by ac- tual infective processes. This is found in insane hospitals, where it | is a form of compulsion neurosis. The | victims are impelled to scratch them- | selves just as other insane persons | are compelled to swallow heedles, etc. | It also, Dr. Eichenlaub said, often is found in general practice by ma- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1937. A Letter of Credit Permits you to take three months to pay for purchases, requires no down payment and there is no carrying charge. Apply ... Credit Office . . . Fifth Floor lingers who have suits against '.hflr‘ employers or against some public | utility. There may have been a slight “breaking out” in the first place, but they continue it by the use of their fingernails or acid. | It also is found, he said, in other- wise apparently normal persons who | | develop a fixed delusion that there | 1s some parasite under the skin and are perpetually trying to “scratch it {out.” They tell the doctor the scratch | marks were made by the parasite. “Pickers’ Disease.” | Still another was the so-called “pickers’ disease.” The victims seem compelled to ‘“pick” at some rough | part of the skin until they produce sores which may be difficult to cure. | Once started, habit gets the best of ,‘lhem and they cannot stop. Often | they believe they are suffering from | some malignant infection. An actual condition induced by the excessive sweating, especially of the '(‘an be found for it, he said, and it | 8 highly nervous condition. Still another malady is exccessive which there is no sufficient physical cause, although it may bring the vic- time extreme discomfort. This also, | Dr. Eichenlaub said, is referred from | the nerves and may result from a | badly cooked meal, overwork disap- pointment in love or hundreds of similar causes. | Hanrahan to Talk at V. P. I. | nerves, he said, is “hyperhydrosis,” | | palms of the hands and soles of the | | feet. No demonstrable organic cause | is believed undoubtedly to be due to | itching of some part of the skin for | ARLINGTON, Va., May 7 (Special). | han will | speak at the eleventh annual meeting | of the Virginia Social Science Asso- | | ciation. at Virginia Polytechnic Insti- | | tute. His subject will be, “Why th Delay in Reorganization of Count | Government?” | — — Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. Corner of 12th and o Free auto parkirg for patrons at || sreen gate” on “L" Street side of || Council House, opposite Thomson Pub- || lic Sehool. 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