The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-09-20
MAKING A,UMAy FACE.
rh0mns COlrs Tatrtern Wears Fx-
perirncc Cndrr the surgeons.

In 1871, Thomas Colt, then II years
Old was taken to Bellevue Hospital, sui
ferlng from disease which had destroyed
his nose and lips and had begun to affect
his eyes. He wa, taken in charge by DR..
Gustavus Sabine, and since that time has
been under treatment with a view to re.
placing the lost parts in the face.
Alter the course of the disease had
been checked, the process of builling up
was begun by cutting away the flesh
about the edges of the ori6ce, where the
nose had been. Then the inside of the
large finger Of the right hand was flayed,
and the fresh cut wound was fitted where
the nose should be. The hand was held
in place by bandages and plaster Of paris
until the. finger had grown fast to the
forehead and cheeks of the patient. In
the meantime the mouth was covered by
the hand, and silver tube was inserted
into the lads throat, through which he
was fed and through which he also
breathed.
When the grating to the face was CON-
pleted, and circulation established, the
finger was amputated near the knuckle,
leaving two and half joints attached to
the face. The operation SO far had re-
qulred about year, but the process was
only begun. The next step was to trim
down the finger into the shape of nose
by removing the bone and gradually
building up the flesh on each side and
drawing the skin from the cheeks and
forehead over it. In course of time the
result sought was obtained, except that
there were as yet no nostrils.
The eyes of the unfortunate boy had
both been drawn out of position some
what, and these were Strengthened by
clipping nerves in manner usually
adopted by oculists in treating cross. eyed
people. The eyebrows were also patched
up at the inner ends.
The next step was 20 give the boy a
new pair of lips. This was done gradu-
ally, by taking pieces of flesh from the
cheeks and grating them in place bit by
bit.
After thirteen years experience under
surgeons knife, having meantime
undergone and recovered from thirty diff.
ferent operations, the patient, now a
young man, left the hospital. His face
smooth, and to the casual observer bore
no traces of what he had passed through.
The case is extraordinary for the extent
Of the work done and the perfect result
obtained. Not less extraordinary was
the fortitude of the patient. who never
murmured under the necessarily painful
operations, and who, when walking the
floor because of his suffering, was wont
to cheer up the other patients in the ward
by telling droll stories, Of which he had
large supply. He was known in the hos.
pital as Patient Tommy"
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There is an epidemic among the fish in
the San Joaquin river and the sloughs in
the vicinity of that stream. The shore
along the river where the water has re.
coded is found to he covered with dead
fish of all kinds. The fatal disease makes
its appearance in the shape of black spots
found about the body and gills OF the
fish. Even gold fish in glass globes have
died with it.
Sheriff Hardy of Washington county
came in Sunday from St. George with q
pisoner named Alfred Bumester, alias
Olof Te sci, who is charge with an assault
with deadly weapon upon one William
STEPHENS at Camp Carbon PAGES mines),
In Washington county. Beaver Record
The Best assortment Of hams, bacon
and lard in the county is now offered by
J. Poujade, Meadow valley street
Wholesale and retail; home made and
imported.
For the past thirty years Denmark ha
contributed a yearly average of l,50,
recruits to the Mormon Church.