. National Eclectic Medical Association quarterly. ye suffering as severely as the contraction was so extensive as to prevent the patient from entirelyclosing the lids of the left eye. Being desirous of gaining a free, movablelid, we decided to transplant a portion of the whole thickness of the skinover the place occupied formerly by the left eyebrow. Placing the patientunder a general anesthesia, having no fear of a repetition of the formerhemorrhage, because her skull had been well covered by the new grafts andthe underlying spongy tissue had atrophied so much as to contain but asm
. National Eclectic Medical Association quarterly. ye suffering as severely as the contraction was so extensive as to prevent the patient from entirelyclosing the lids of the left eye. Being desirous of gaining a free, movablelid, we decided to transplant a portion of the whole thickness of the skinover the place occupied formerly by the left eyebrow. Placing the patientunder a general anesthesia, having no fear of a repetition of the formerhemorrhage, because her skull had been well covered by the new grafts andthe underlying spongy tissue had atrophied so much as to contain but asmall amount of blood in its tissues, we made a curved incision along theborder of the supraorbital process of the skull, corresponding to the line ofthe natural eyebrow, and dissecting down the contracted lid until the eyecould be easily closed, we dissected out from the skin of the thigh a portionof the entire thickness of the skin, carefully avoiding the underlying fattytissue, and making due allowance for the natural contraction of the skin m y.
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