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ANDREW LIDDELL

 Maitland

Andrew Liddell was the son of Rev. Francis Liddell, minister of the church of Scotland of Lauriston place Edinburgh.

Andrew Liddell performed and assisted in many surgical operations at Maitland. In the Maitland Mercury in 1843 the following account was made of one of his operations:

RESTORING A NOSE - This operation has lately been performed by Mr. Liddell, surgeon, of this town on a assigned servant of Richard Jones, Esq., Bolwarra. It is usually performed, as in the present instance, where accident of disease has destroyed a part of the nose, by dissecting a suitable portion of skin from the forehead of the patient leaving only a slender attachment, whereby its vitality is for a time maintained; this skin is then adapted to the edges of the deficiency, previously pared, in order to reduce them to the condition of a recent wound. When the operation is successful, union of the parts takes place in three or four days. By this operation, which is termed by surgeons the rinoplastic art, deficiencies of other parts of the body, as the lip, ear, etc have at times been usefully restored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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