Note 72 — Chapter V · OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF HARELIP.
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Trendelenburg objects to the harelip operation being called a life-saving one, on the ground that the inability to gain sufficient nutriment depends rather on the associated cleft palate than on the cleft lip. But if the lip be united efficiently the method of feeding by bottle suggested at p. 66 enables the child to suck and swallow satisfactorily in spite of the palatal defect.