Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite a precipitous descent to the floor following a right to the jaw in the sixth round of his fight with Young Norfolk, New Orleans Negro heavyweight, Battling Siki took the decision...
...made necessary by the unusual number of jaw fractures and face injuries which occurred in the early intensive trench warfare. Lieutenant Colonel Vilray P. Blair, St. Louis surgeon, noted that few men were trained to treat such injuries, and organized the "Maxillo-IFacial Service" in the U. S. Medical Corps, consisting of teams or units, each composed of a surgeon, an assistant and a dentist. Special schools were organized, men were sent into the French and British hospitals for observation, and eventually a maxillofacial team was assigned to each base hospital center. Much of the success of such work depends...
...civil life, of course, jaw injuries are uncommon, and facial surgery is largely of the plastic type, dealing with the soft parts of skin and tissue. The chief drawback is the slowness of the process. A case may require a dozen operations before its discharge, for these things cannot be done in a single step. The anaesthesia and prevention of infection are of special importance. Much of the early War work was hampered by infection and lack of equipment. In plastic surgery flaps of skin and tissue are frequently moved from one part of the body to take the place...
...repaired by grafts. Wax models are sometimes constructed for patterns. Long noses may be shortened, bony humps in them may be removed, depressions may be filled in in "saddle noses." At Major Gilles' clinic a woman with terrible burns on her face was equipped with a new jaw and eyebrows. A baby with a withered ear was given a good one. Hundreds of applicants, who want their faces reconstructed because of deformities which militate against employment or marriage, have had to be turned away. Formerly, except in armies, only the rich could afford facial surgery, but the St. Andrew...
...Great sluggish idiot with slobbered jaw". And "Eve" and "song Heard by St. Anthony" show him not deficient in imagination...