1985 Press Photo Jessica Zillmer held by mother Suzanne Hanson with Roger Mixter

Jessica Zillmer was held by her mother, Suzanne Hanson, as physician Roger Mixter examined the stitches on her head. And Roger C. Mixter, Thomas A. Duff and William D. Engber, three surgeons from the University of Wisconsin Medical School, are doing a much better job than all the king's horses and all the king's men. Two of them already have cut apart Jessica's skull and adjacent bones, recut them, reshaped them and rearranged them like a biological jigsaw puzzle to giver her a new head and part of a new face. diseases. Apert's syndrome.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches. Photo is dated 03-01-1985.

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