Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-05
Nose printlng ANA Its cure.

A Memphian having written to a New
York journal ;nquiring If there is any
means Of curing q red nose or face,
brought about by the excessive use of
alcoholic drinks, the learned journal
answers as follows for the benefit Of the
Man who Paints hia Nose and Face
with Whisky"
MIR. Balmanno Squire, in the Medical
Examiner, discusses what he terms the
radical cure Of red face. According to
him. it is quite easy in many of the most
common kinds Of redness dis6guring the
face, and especially the region Of the
nose, not only to emove the eruption,
but to abolish the conditions which req
der the skin liable to renewed blossoms
The method / have TO recommend, he
says, which in a large number Of exam.
Piles | have found invariably successful
in ell the conditions | have enumerated,
is based on the method found to be sutfi
Gent in dealing with the large varicose
veins so commonly 10 be met with on the
legs, namely, division of those veins at
right angels to their cor cse. The method
/ practice consists in simply scarifying
| the skin with a cataract'needle. The
needle | use is somewhat larger than
an ordinary cataract needle, the head Of
it being about four times the customary
size. With ii | make parallel ineisions
over the affected area, spacing them at
about one sixteenth of an inch apart.
In order 10 make the operation quite
painless, and also for the purpose OF in
surfing precision 10 the drawing Of the
missions, l employ DR.. Richardson's
ether spray apparatus for freezing the
affected skin, not only with the view of
rendering the skin insensible, but also
with the view of avoiding any trickling
Of blood, which would inte rtere, o fcourse,
with precision in the draughtsmsnship OF
the incisions. The missions are carried
according to the essential nature Of the
lesion, either only half deep through the
skin or through its entire thickness. The
hemorrhage when the skin has thawed)
is quite easily controlled, or rather alb
s~olutely prevented, by firm pressure, with
the fingers, a layer Of blotting-psper be-
ing interposed between the fingers and
the scaritied skin; the pressure should
be kept up for between FIVE and ten min
utes, at the end of which time any ten
dency to bleeding will be found to have
ceased. Any layer or clot should be
then washed of with a large camel-hair
brush stepped in cold water, and the sur.
face thereupon coated with glycerine,
applied with another large camelhair
brush. The needle should be sent 10
the instrument maker to be ~sharpened
after each use Of il. With this precautior
and a little address, II will be found
that the linear missions when if deftly
made, will, like the ideal mathematical
: line, have only length without thickness
| have healed perfectly in between a weel
and a fortnight. After a month no trace
whatever Of them will remain, and tn,
skin will be found to have regained com
! pletely its normal degree Of pallor. On,
: precaution needs TO be added. Ate
I making the cuts, care must be taken no
to stretch or drag upon the skin Twill,
exercising the subsequent pressure on i
with the ingers) in a direction trans
{ verse to that Of the missions, because il
such case the wounds will be mad
slightly to cape, and thereupon tn.
n slightly gaping miniature missions viii
become plugged by the time the pressur,
is removed by correspondingly minut
1t but not irrevoeably established wedge
shape clots Of blood. This might seen
q small cause Of lament; but it is not SC
since, as a matter Of fact, it becomes tn
occasion Of numerous persistent Inca
scars, whereas, il deity avoided, n
trace whatever Of the little operation
a remains when the month has elapsed
5, excepting when only such an absolutel
unqualified improvement as is at ono
Il gratifying to the practitioner and satiI
factory to the patient.