The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 351
Pancoast's Plastic Operations. 1842.] 347 There were three indications to fulfil in the operation: 1st, to enlarge the mouth to its natural dimensions; 2d, to cut up flaps from the cheeks, and reconstruct the upper lip, and finally after the new lip had become solid and firm, to make a new nose by… … incisions were joined by a rounded cut on the cheeks, and the circumscribed portions removed, leaving the mu- cous membrane. The mouth was opened, the stretched intervening mucous membrane divided in the middle line, and each half bound over by a few stitches to its corresponding portion of cut…
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