Facial Paralysis Following Mastoid Disease and Operation (1934), pt 3 of 3

An operation performed in Britain by master facial surgeons Gillies and McIndoe to correct a facial paralysis in a young man. The surgery is shown in detail and explained step by step through intertitles. Immediately after the operation, over-correction is noted in the patient. Later results show the patient's face with increased mobility and little scarring. A further patient, a young boy with the same condition, is shown smiling and eating a biscuit. Find out more: http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/record=b1672624~S3

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Education

Tags:

• facial surgery
• paralysis
• silent film
• medical film
• medicine
• surgery
• history of medicine
• history of surgery
• gillies
• archive film

[Marmalade000000]

What anaesthetic did they use on the boy then?

[Masterazeri]

This is not right. I think this operation has no effect. I wonder if the cure for facial paralysis has been advanced or not?