Milford chronicle., 1891-01-23
HELPING OUT NATURE
ALL PARTS or THE BODY SUP
Piled EXCEPT VITAL ORGANS.

How q So Called Total Wreck May Il
Benefited by the Advanced Proeesse
and Inventions Of These Days-SIedica
Science Stops at Nothing.
When one Of Noah's grandchildren
lost a finger in a haycutter or an arm ii
buzzsaw, or had an eye put out or
leg cut off, or lost his hair or teeth, Ii
was forced TO go without the item thu
deducted from his sum total for the res
Of his mortal life. 1t is hard to credi
the amount of patching up that mal
now'be accomplished by the advanced
+ processes and inventions Of these days.
Suppose that a man has lost all foui
limbs, his hair, his eyes, his nose, all his
teeth and portion Of his palate, and
that he has a fractured skull and tuber-
Cles on his lungs. The gentleman may
also be covered with the pits of an early
ease Of smallpox and may have been pre-
sented at his birth with a large mole on
his cheek.
First, Of course, he WI have his head
{ trepanned by some sldllful surgeon, and
when he has had the tubercles removed
from his lungs by a specialist in pull
monary diseases and has recovered from
the exhausting effects of these two opera
tions he will be in proper state to have
his ewes attended to. A rabbit is select
ed whose optics are Of a color becoming
to the subject, and one Of them is trans
planted by means of transference. OF
course he could hardly expect to have
both eyes successfully supplied in this
way, but supposing he has good luck and
one grows satisfactorily, the other socket,
for the sake of beauty and symmetry,
viii be filed by one Of the glass eyes
now manufactured to such perfection.
GETTING LIMBS, ETC.
His next proceeding win be to call in
a maker Of artificial limbs and be meas
ured for full suit of arms and legs.
If the patient is fortunate enough to
have one arm down to the wrist, he will
be supplied with hand with which he
can manage to write little and feed
himself quite perfectly. His lower limbs
viii convey him from place to place, not
very gracefully, to be sure, but still as
well as many merely lame legs convey
their owners, and which, sitting or rest
ing, will present, perhaps, a more sym
appearance than the originals
they have succeeded.
The once total wreck is stin bald,
toothless and disfgured with pock-
marks and a mole. An artificial set Of
teeth, quite as good as the original arti-
Gle and incapable of aching, will be sup
piled by any good dentist, and the miss
ing portion Of the palate also win be /
aTnished, = slen the hair would nat /
iriLifiiy be .sfffs dext thought.
He may have hair or portions of scalp |
iransplanted to the uncovered cranium.
But this is a long and painful process,
70 we will suppose that the subject con-
ents himself with a wig. Fortunately
n these days wigs are made which are
ntirely deceptive, and so far as appear
Ince goes look quite as well as natures
lwn production. The writer Of these
ines has shared a room with the wearer
f such a wig for several days and was
lot aware that his companions Hyperion
ocks were not the proper growth Of the
ead they adorned until in burst of
onhdence the truth was revealed.
HOW THE VICTIM MAY APPEAR.
The beauty seeker next goes to that
rtist of recent growth, the ''de1matol-
gist, " who first destroys his mole by
electrosis' and then gets to work on
ne pockmarks. These are smoothed by
disintegrahng process, which loosens
p the fbrous structure of the scars and
nOoths down the whole face by a sort {
planning method.
He is still disfgued by the want Of a I
ose, certainly a most important lack in T
human countenance. This feature
ay now be supplied by surgery by S
ansplanting fold of flesh from some 5
wing arm, which is held near the face L
be repaired until a portion of the fold t
Is grown fast in its new situation, and t
en- is wholly separated from the arm S
ID forms fairly satisfactory nasal ap- c
ndage. l
Here the former human wreck NAV p
ak about the streets or call upon his h
minnie acquaintance quite capable Of Il
preciating their charms, for he has n
e available eye. He may smile also. d
+ his molars and incisors are now a
entiful and Of pearly whiteness, and "
ough his nose may be a trife pudding St
e and lack Grecian symmetry Of line, IL
J delicate complexion and luxuriant al
II largely compensate for this tri1ing l
feet. m
He will never, Of course, be salts a
tory partner in the waltz, but his dig hi
led repose and symmetrical limbs h'
lst make him an ornament to the re- pa
,tion and conYersazione. to
Thus while the vital organs remain
thin the trunk and the gray matter of he
! brain is intact man need not de- m
Iir, and surgeons believe that we may go
N expect to see the i'll furnished a
MUM supplied with such qualities as OF
acks, and poets, painters, inventors co
1 philosophers manufactured out of w
raw material of the idiot ward and "
stage door contingent York m,
rid. tol
good story has just come to light about -
Spurgeon, which gives some idea of the =,
he entertains for bagpipe playing. ris
aul MckillOp, the old Highlander whose az
y was found in the Caledonian canal q \
erness, the other week, and who saw wi
IA active service in the Seventy-ninth it
was engaged to play Mr. be,
rgeon from Dingwall station, when the nm
Dr. Kennedy's new church was opened ~,
hat town. MeKillop, dressed in full y
and with his pipe in splendid v
r impatiently awaited the arrival Of no.
eminent divine from London. oui
} sooner had Mr.. Spurgeon stepped clio
the railway carriage on to the plat be
than his ears were greeted with a ~
ing Highland march Mr.. Sturgeon
led to take in the stalwart piper at a
ce, ascertained his name paul dcKil- I
and, in voice heard above the sound bri,
be pipes exclaimed, paul, Paul, why emf
scutest thou me2" 49,
al was quick to perceive that the di- 80
meant no otfense, and, giving pat to -
oagpipes, he made for the church, Wol