The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06
RED NOSES.
There Arc -Four Kinds, but Only One Sure
Remedy.

There Are -Four Kinds, but Only One Sure
Remedy.
New York Times.
Many gentlemen of correct habits and proper
morals, who are members of the Young Mems
Christian Association and sympathize with the
Prohibitionists, are afflicted with carmine tipped
noses of so brilliant a lustre as to drive the cas-
ual observer to the conclusion that they are dis
sipated and abandoned reprobates. Nothing can
be more dishearteulng to a man whose principles
have led him to abstain totally from all intoxi-
eating liquors than to be pointed out as a horri-
BILE example to the rising generation in the
streets, only because an inscrutahle Providence
has bestowed upon a red nose. One of these I'M
fortunate individuals, driven no doubt to desper-
alton by the scorn of the temperate man and the
iibes of the small boy whom he meets upon the
thoroughfares of the metropolis, yesterday ad-
vertised as follows in a daily paper:
A liberal reward will be paid for a remedy that
will cure @ red nose on person of good habits.
DR.. William Stevens, Of No. % West Thirty
first street, was questioned upon these phenom-
ena by a reporter OF the Times. Red noses"
said the physician, may be divided into four
classes. There is the whisky-red nose, which is
often cultivated by its owner with as much pride
and attention as ne devotes to the coloring of
his meersehaum pipe. Some men are proud of
red noses, just as others are Of black eyes-arti
fcally black-but these persons are not orna-
ments to society morally, any more than they
are physically, as a general thing. OF course,
the only remedy for this kind of a red nose is to
abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages. 1t
all depends upon whether a man will sacrifc
his appetite to his appearance. The second class
Of red Doses-the kind of a red nose
that may be associated with the fea-
lures of q gentleman who does not use
liquors. produced by embolism; that is, by the
stoppage or obstruction OF blood vessels in the
end of the nose, causing the blood to remain
there. This may be cured by pricking with long
needles and letting tho blood out Does it hurtl
Oh, no, of course not; its a very pleasant opera
ton, like pulling teeth.
1.-The third class OF red nose may DO called the
cancerous diathesis nose, which is caused by
cancer, and can only be cured by the cure of the
cancer. The fourth class Of these red noses
the red nose that is most common to men and
women of good habits as the gentleman who
advertises says-is the red nose produced by
superficial capillary circulation in the veins and
arteries just below the surface of the skin.
condition that they will not receive the red cor
puscles in the blood, and therefore no redness is
appreciate when the arteries and skin are
healthy. The redness is caused by a d~isorgan-
lied condition of the capillaries. The minute
veins become enlarged and the red corpuscles
are admitted and show through the skin. The
only cure for these noses is climate, diet and
exercise-a regulation of the system. Some
people whose noses are red in New York would
find them tho color of the rest of their skin in
Florida or at the North Pole, and people whose
noses are red in those places might find them
cured in a climate like this. The only sure way
to cure any red nose is to adopt the plan of the
gentleman mentioned by Sam Weller, who
cured his little boy of squirting by cutting his
head off" .