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A Shell's Work 



Altliouvjli the work of 

 Captain Wood is by no 

 means confined to war 

 injuries, the majority 

 of liis patients are men 

 who were distiKured by 

 more or less serious in- 

 juries received in the war. 

 The picture below shows 

 a young British soldier 

 who was hit between the 

 eyes by a shell splinter. 

 See the transforma- 

 tion wrought by the 

 mask, in the picture 

 to the right 







Only Imitations 



The stock-in-trade of 

 this human repair shop 

 is of a varied nature. 

 Masks in every stage of 

 completion, ears, eyes, 

 noses, chins or other 

 parts of the features are 

 the most common speci- 

 mens in evidence. Spec- 

 tacles arc often cm- 

 ployed as a convenient 

 means of unobtrusively 

 fastening the metal 

 masks so as to cover the 

 disfiguring scar caused 

 by injury or disease 



A Sculptor's Idea 



The officer shown stand- 

 ing in the picture, palette 

 hand, is Captain 

 I'rancis Derwent Wood, 

 the English sculptor, who 

 enlisted in the British 

 army in May, 1915. He 

 entered the hospital serv- 

 ice and soon was placed in 

 charge of the splint room 

 of one of the military hos- 

 pitals in London. His ex- 

 perience there suggested 

 to him the thought that 

 art could be of great help 

 in extending and perfect- 

 ing the efforts of plastic 

 surgery. The govern- 

 ment encouraged him and 

 he was given an opportun- 

 ity to develop his method 



With the Mask 



The picture above shows 

 the British soldier of the 

 picture on the left, as he 

 appeared wearingthe mask 

 rrade for him by Captain 

 Wood. It is held in place 

 by the spectacle frame 

 and completely hides the 

 terribly disfiguring scar 

 which the shell-splinter 

 wound left between the 

 young man's eyes. It is 

 so perfectly made that it is 

 almost impossible to see 

 where the mask ends and 

 the natural tissue begins 



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