SURGEONS USE PLASTIC SURGERY & CAST TO GIVE GIRL A NEW HAND
Baltimore, Maryland (JFK+50) On September 3, 1924, The Evening Star reports 14 year old Elizabeth Matthiesen will get "a new hand" so "that she may realize her ambition to become proficient at the piano."
Miss Matthiesen fell against a hot stove while learning to walk as a toddler and burned both hands. One of her hands responded well to treatment but the other did not.
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital here in Baltimore have employed plastic surgery* on the bad hand and utilized a plaster cast "to remold it to normal shape."
*plastic surgery involves restoration, reconstruction or alteration of the human body.
SOURCE
"Hand Made Over So Crippled Girl May Play Piano," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., September 3, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
