St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-07
INTERESTING SURGERY.
Removing Wen from Mans Nose BY
Means of Electricity.

Removing a Wen from Mans Nose BY
Means of Electricity.
A friend was telling me of his own
and his wife's experience in having
moles and wens removed by electric
ity. His wife had on her right
shoulder blemish in the form of a
large mole, quite half an inch in
diameter, which practically made it
impossible for her to wear ball OF
evening dresses which would reveal
her otherwise shapely shoulders. She
accidentally heard of the electric
operations, and, obtaining the adj
dress of the surgeon who performs
them, she went without her husband S
knowledge to his Office and submitted
to the operation. 1t required about a
week to heal the wounds made by
the needles with which the mole
was perforated in every direction;
then the mole, which had been burned
to dry, black crisp, fell off, leaving
the shoulder perfectly white,
and with only the slight
est indentation to show where the dis
celebration had been. A new skin
formed over it and there is hardly a
noticeable blemish there now. Sue
cess inspired her to insist on her hus-
bands undergoing the same operation
on more delicate part of his person
namely. his nose. He thus tells of his
own experience:
Il had on my nose at birth, SO Twas
told, wen, which grew with my years
until became man, and for many
years it greatly disfgured my counte-
nance. 1t was about the size of a pea
and was on my left nostril. 1t changed
color from time to time, and would
grow to be a frightful sanguinary red
whenever I INDUCED myself with
wines or liquors of any sort. / came
to regard it at times as gin BIOS
son. and an irreverent reporter in de-
scriblng me once suggested that this
object had evidently been one of long
and patient and costly culture. Invent
on my wife's urgent entreaty to her
surgeon and asked him if it could be
removed. He looked at it and
that it might be
if / would not look upon the WINE when
it was red; but told him ] was born
so. He examined further, and at once
proceeded to operate upon it. He
bathed my nose, first of all. in CO.
caine. 1t grew cold at first and then
became perfectly numb, as though
asleep from lack of circulation of the
blood. It felt as if paralyzed. He
then applied an electric needle to the
wen, sticking it through and through
rs near the roots as possible. There
was no pain. though half an hour was
consumed in the operation. When
ever he increased the current of cleo
tricitv / saw billions of stars, and
sparks seemed to fash from my eyes
and the eyeballs seemed to crack with
each spark that apparently few from
them. When the operation was COM
pleted the wen was black, no longer
red, and more unsightly than ever.
He put fesh-colored court-plaster over
it and kept it there for about a week.
Then in washing it off the mess OF
blackened flesh fell away. A new
skin formed, and now you can barely
see a small scar where the unsightly
object once was.
Does your surgeon make speciality
Of this werkp" I asked.
mo. and I wonder he does not.
There are thousands of women and
men in this city who would pay
almost any price to have blemishes of
this sort removed. I have stopped
several strangers ON the streets and
told them Of my experience, and gave
hem the Doctors address. Only one
ever recognized me after, and he was
without his wen. and was most pro-
fuse in his thanks. II he did not have
higher aims and purposes. and would
make speciality of this business, my
loctor would be rich in no time; but
ne would have to advertise. and that
sn't professional. you know. He pre-
lers. however. to straighten crooked
limbs and invent surgical instru-
nents. Nashville American.
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