The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-17
The Nose in History.
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The Nose in History.
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 The annals of surgery contain many cases where the nose has been cut or torn oT and being replaced has groxn kass aszias recovering its ieopardised funr- ;ions. One of the earliest. i6So. is re- lA.ed by the surgeon (Floravenri) who happened 10 be near by when a mans nose. having been cut off. had fallen in the sand. He remarks that ke took It up. washed II, replaced il and that ii grew together. He adds the address ef the owner of the repaired nose and requests any doubtes to % and examine if fos himself. Regnaul; in THe Gasesse .>s!afai,e. i7i+, tells oi patient. whose nose was bitten of by smuggler. The o~ner of the nose wrapped 1t in a bit of oisth and sought Regnault. who, ..al- though the part was cold. reset ii. and it be zzIne attached.
 Although these cases call for more ere duiity than most of us have to spare. vet laser cases. published in trustworthy jour Ea,s. would seem 10 eorroborate them. IT. Iae Chaftal .4asaiS as4 .Aedifai {, .sc'te, of Heidelberg, 1850, there arc sixteen similar cases cited by the surgeon Df. Hofaeker) who was appointed by me senate to attend the duels of the stu oeais.
 II seems d little strange. considering hoA often the making of new nose has be.n performed in Amerioa since Dr. l.. Mason Warren. in 1857. made, the first $. eessful one. in Boston. that VIC never see one. Probably none of us here. save ve who have been medical students. ever saw one. and yet nearly every prominent surgeon Tn the country has performed the operation with success several times.
 salse noses are made of papier msche, leather. gold. silver and wax These last .:e h,ted to spectacles or springs. and very diffieul, to distinguish from ;Ie nose.
 Iycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel a wore golden one. which he at- ;- he'd with cemen, he always earned about
 ]; Is d little singular through how long !. aeriod and down to what recent times ! naS been the practice to cut of the noses of criminals. How often tyranny ,h.s amused itself with this occupation to trivial ofienses ..--Ramesis III. used to l-- oii the nose of any subject accused Of <. king treason against him. Actisanes. another ruler of Egypt. had a novel way oi punishins robbers. He GU, of their reses and eolonized shem-the robbers- if desert place. which he called Rhino- ccnum, from the nature of the punish r ent of his citizens. On the other hand, s=d more humane. perhaps, was his pun .>emeni of dishonest butchers h was t sique. A hook was put through their ncse and piece of meat hung upon il.
 .u Ih7I Charles II. had Lord Coyentry's .eePer of the seal of Engiandl nose cut = because he dared to ask in parliament .a iaquisitivc question about some ac- :'ssses of the day
 Later Frederick the Great had mo- | -raan's nose GU; of because he pro- tested openly that he had been enrolled ir the army through fraud
 Within historical times there are rec . ls of some wonderful noses In the
 edals of Cyrus and Artaxerxes the tips oi their noses come close out to the rim of the coin. Antiothrs VIII was an in- ;sasins prince. They called him 4-Gry- pas, because his nose was as big and hooked as vulture's beak. But then ire ancien, Pcrsians permitted only the oEners Of large noses to enjoy royal hon. oTs.
 Mohammed's nose must have been a curioslty. IL was so curved the point -sse,ned 10 be endezyorin2 to insert itself between his lips. A later time and phe- nomenal nose must have been that of the treat Frederick. i-avater offered to wa ger his reputation that blindfolded he could tell Il out of 10000 other noses by nply taking il between his thumb and forehnger. One doubts whether Lavater vls more of courier or man of science, seif-oonhdent in his sense of touch, or wne,her he knew no pwofane hand would ce permitted to lay hold of the royal pro- tuberance- In either case his wager vas s-fe probably. The nose of the Emperor kodolph of Austria saved his life in an oad kind of way. During a campaign {. troop of knights entered into a oonspir- : Y to kill him, A peasant who was en- ! owed about the tents of the consplra- 'srs. one evening overheard them say ::
 Tomorrow we'll surprise old big nose ..s.a cut ham Q pieces" After his work Yt> over. the peasant started out to visit ,ame friends in another part of the camp ne emperor, who was going about with same of his knights. meeting the man, asked who he was and wha, was going CT in his part of the camp. He inno- cently told that there would be fun next rlorning. as they were going to cut big nose in pieces. But they had not even a caance to ge; out of bed '.ne,u morning. .
 Napoleon l. was said to be influenced n his choice of officers b. the sine of the rose. All remember what the Pzrisians e&lled Napoleon TIL, "Crosbec"-No- sey. Gibbon had hardly any nose at all. He had wee little protuberanee in the middle of his lace which, by courtesy vas called a nose, but it was hardly dis cernible, set in between two enormous cheeks. It is said of Soame Jenyns that he wondered how anybody so ugly a. Gibbon could write book, and ye4 llenyns also wrote books, and had an enormous wen under his jaw, had eyes