"to order," exactly as the motorcar makes use of "spare parts"...

But here we knew nothing of this advance in science and progress in medicine... so that whoever was struck with such infirmities and disfigurements had no choice — if he was a man of wealth — but to make for Europe or America in search of someone to straighten what was crooked in his nose or shattered in any of his members...

And if he was poor, there was nothing for him but to hold his peace in bitterness, while the forces of rancor, envy, and resentment fermented within him, till he became a man torn by every kind of anxious fancy, eaten away by every sort of psychological complex...

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...Until, this year, the Lebanese heard of a young Lebanese physician who was the first to storm this arduous field of medicine... I say "arduous" because the specialist in it must first hold the ordinary medical degree, then work at specializing in surgery for three years, adding to them four years of specialization in "cosmetic surgery"... not to mention that "cosmetic surgery" demands a surpassing deftness in the work, a refined taste, and the capacity to understand every kind of temperament and the factors that surround it — factors which are very often obscure and hard to read...

Our young physician is "Dr. Philip Antiba," a young man of thirty-five... His eyes ripple with an uncommon intelli-

The "harelip" before the operation

Six weeks after the operation

The condition of the hand after the skin-grafting operation

The thumb fused to the hand as the result of an old burn