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Rh "1. The deformed part of the face, and the surrounding regions are lubricated with white vaseline, care being taken to fill the hair spaces in the eyelids, and the eyelashes. A quick-setting plaster of Paris is mixed and when it is of the consistency of thick cream, it is gently painted over the sound tissue with a soft brush,

until the surface is covered. Care must be taken to leave a breathing space at the nose and mouth, and to see that the face is not unnaturally drawn or wrinkled from nervousness. The plaster is strengthened and thickened, until it forms a sheet about one inch in thickness. When this has become set, as shown by the heat, it is carefully drawn off.

"2. This mold—the negative—is well soaped with green soap, oiled, and a cast—