Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-26
ssThe Man with n wax Head.,,

tETOnl the EalI mtI1Sdazett9I
 Some terrible stories are told by the burial parties after the battle of Tel-el-K Kebir of the ghast1y nature of the wounds inflicted by modern arms of precision. In one case the officers in charge found poor Egyptian, who
 had been left for dead, with the upper part of his face blown quite away. He WAS, how
 ever, still alive, and notwithstanding his fear ful injuries, was, by the care and skill of
 English doctors, fairly on the way to recov-
 cry when he was attacked by dysentery, which
 proved fatal. A different fate, however, if not more fortunate one, seems to have
 awaited Jean Moreau, French artilIeryman;
 wounded in the France-German war, whose
 story is told by General Ambert in the second
 volume of his Souvenirs Militaires," which
 is shortly to be published in Paris.
 f'Moreau entered the service in 1870 and
 on the 3d of January, 1871, was engaged in
 the affair at Bapaume. Toward 3 o'clock in
 the afternoon, while he was loading & cannon,
 he was struck down by shell, which, burst ing across his face, tore away his nose, eyes, the upper jaw, and part of the lower. He
 was left for dead on the field but after a
 time recovered his senses, and by chance
 staggered, falling at almost every step, on the road to the village of Ervilliers. The colonel
 of the Twenty-fourth regiment sent him
 from this place by carriage to Arras the next morning, where he staid till the 4th of October
 following He WAS transferred to the military
 hospital at Val de Grace, at Paris, e fortnight later, and remained there till the 28th of
 March, 1872, when cicatrization was nearly complete All the soft portions of the fore part of the head having disappeared, and the bony framework being crushed in various appearance of veritable deaths head, with two cavities for the eyes, one for the nose, and large opening for the mouth. How ever, by ingenuity and patience wax re- semblanee of face was invented and fitted with the utmost exactitude to the healthy portions of flesh which still surrounded the immense cicatrix. The adhesion, which is almost hermetic, was completed by a natural cushion of skin which thus, as it were keeps the border of the mask in 8 groove. The inner cavity has also been utilized, one of its uses being, by means of lint, to guard the patient against the effects of sudden altera- tions of heat and cold, while the upper jaw and the palate are protected by a plate, to which are attached row of false teeth, and mastication of the hardest kinds of food is successfully performed.
 Thanks to the disposition of the Fnatural { perts of the ingenious shaping of the mask, and particularly that of the false nose, ,respira tion IS rendered possible through its nostrils, and, indeed, has regained the normal direc- tion, from below to above. The system of l eerat1on IS assisted by two small holes toward the inner angle of the eyes, creating an inner current of air, the eyes themse1ves, of course, being closed. The sense of smell gstrange to 1 say, has been regained, while the voice pos I sesses it's natural tone and clearness. Thus \ Moreau-who, when he removes his mask, it \ is needless to say, presents most hideous aspect, in consequence of the disappearance of great part of the bony portions, as well as the muscles which should cover them, and of whose head there literally remained only ! the brain and the cranium-is enabled, by this I wonderful exercise of medical skill and con | structive talent, to breathe, eat, speak, smell, 1 and even, so it is said, to play the flute. The mutilated soldier, who is fond of chatting I about his campaigns, possesses that resigned 1 air common to blind men, and his sense of | touch, moreover, has excessively developed. He lives at Fevrl, Landrecies, in the Nord | department, and ekes out his pension by the | sale of pamphlet recounting the facts of