The æsthetic treatment of hare-lip : with a description of a new operation for the more scientific remedy of this deformity / by Maurice Henry Collis.

  • Collis, Maurice H. (Maurice Henry), 1824-1869.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The æsthetic treatment of hare-lip : with a description of a new operation for the more scientific remedy of this deformity / by Maurice Henry Collis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ESTHETIC TREATMENT OF HARE-LIP. [Being the substance of a Paper communicated to the Obstetrical Society, December, 1866.] The natural condition of the upper lip in its perfect state is as follows:— Its free margin has the waved outline to which the name of “ Cupid’s Bow ” is given. Its depth is greatest in the centre. Its margin is connected with the inner margin of each nostril by a curved line. These curves, and those of the free margin, cor¬ respond, or have a relation to one another; thus, if the lip be full and freely curved, the lines which pass up to the nostrils will like¬ wise be freely curved, and will include a larger portion of lip than when the margin of the lip is almost straight. In this latter case, the lines referred to are also straight or nearly so. The upper lip may, therefore, be fairly divided into a central and two lateral portions, joined by curved lines (Fig. 1). Fig. 1. The fissures of hare-lip always correspond to this division. In the double hare-lip, the fissures cut off the central portion along the curved lines referred to. In the single hare-lip, the central portion remains attached to one side and detached from the other, the curved line being still traceable on the larger portion. These are anatomical facts of some importance, both in a surgical