HARE-LIP SURGERY : A SUGGESTION.

Hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine.

There have been a few articles published in Chinese and English on hare-lip surgery in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. They are brief and some of them are inaccurate, although two recent English articles on this subject have presented an adequate picture on some aspects.' This article offers unreported information and evidence of both congenital and traumatic hare-lip surgery in th...

Hare Lip and Cleft Palate

"A BEAUTIFUL FACE is a silent commendation," wrote Francis Bacon, and he might with equal truth have written, "an ugly face is a silent condemnation." A baby born with a hare lip must produce almost a feeling of revulsion in the mother and relatives. It takes a great mother-love to bring up with affection and care this almost hideous progeny. The condition occurs about one in every thousand bir...

Hare Lip and Cleft Palate

Le Mesurier's operation for hare lip.

The reduction of bleeding in hare-lip and cleft-palate surgery.

A technique is described to reduce bleeding during operation for the correction of hare-lip and cleft-palate. The principle is to inject a vasoconstrictor solution around the arteries at their points of entry to the lip and palate. A total of not more than 2 ml is used of lignocaine 2 per cent combined with 1:80,000 adrenaline. A series of 125 operations was completed without adrenaline and the...