The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-07
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His next proceeding will be to call in
a maker Of artificial limbs and be meas
ured for a 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 Il hand with which ne
can manage to write a little and feed
himself quite perfectly. His lower limbs
will 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, more sym
metricl appearance than the originals
| they have succeeded.
The once total wreck Is still bald
toothless and disfigured with peck
marks and mole. An artificial set of
teeth, quite as good as the original arti-
Gle and incapable Of aching, win be sup
piled by any good dentist, and the miss
ing portion Of the palate also will Ike
furnished. Then the hair would nat
urally be his next thought.
he may have hair or portions of scalp
transplanted to the uncovered Uranium.
But this is long and painful process,
so we will suppose that the subject CON
tents himself with IL wig. Fortunately
in these days wigs are made which are
entirely deceptive, and so far rs appear
ance goes look quite as wei as natures
own production. The writer of these
lines has shared Il room with the wearer
Of such wig for several days and was
notaware that biscomppnion's Hyperion
locks were not the proper growth of the
head they adorned until in burst of
confidence the truth was revealed.
HOW THE VICTIM MAY APPEAR.
The beauty seeker next goes to that
artist Of recent growth, the 'dermatol-
ogist, who first destroys his mole by
''electrosis" and then gets to work on
the poc&marks. These are smoothed by
disintesratlng process, which loosens
up the fibrous structure of the scars and
smooths down the whole face by a sort
of planning method.
lie is still. disfgured by the want Of
nose, certainly most important lack in
a human countenance. This feature
may now be supplied by surgery by
transplantirg fold of flesh from some
living arm, which is held near the face
to be repaired until portion OF the fold
has grown fast in its new situation, and
then is wholly separated from the arm
and forms a fairly satisfactory nasal APP
pendage.
Here the former human wreck may
walk about the streets or call upon his
feminine acquaintance quite capable of
approaching their charms, for he has
on avail lie eye. He may smile also,
for lis molars and incisors are now
plentiful al of pearly whiteness, and
Though L., aoae may be trife pudding
like and lacl, Grecian symmetry of line,
his Gol!u.. complexion and luxuriant
hair la sc,y compensate for this trifling
defect.
He will never, of course, be n salts
factory partner in the waltz. but his dig
niiied repose and symmetrical limbs
must make him an ornament to the re-
ceptiGn ,nyersazioue.
Thus >,-.,, the vital organs remain
within the trunk and the gray matter Of
the brain is intact d man need not de
spair. and surgeons believe that we may
soon expect to see the i'll furnished
cranium supplied with such qualities as
it lacks, and poets, painters, inventors
and philosophers manufactured ont Of
the raw material of the idiot ward and
the stage door contingent. New York
World,