Excerpt from Present Status of Plastic Surgery About the Ear, Face and NeckI. Plastics in War Injuries: Owing to the results from severe wounds and diseases of so many men in the world's War, there 'was and is a great demand for physicians and surgeons to correct and reconstruct these defects. Cases requiring plastic surgery about the head, face and neck, make up a very large portion, although comparatively a small proportion of Americans as to those of the other nations who were in the fight since '1914 and 1-915.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.