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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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