Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-02-05
COMPOSITE HUMANITY.
tiAN MAY ZEE BOUND IN HALF
CALF OR DOCSKiN.
r.! Swapping Skin and Homes With the Rrutcs,
the Future Nan May tass Sleeps
Eyes at His Fellow In Earee,t
borrowed Noses.

borrowed Noses.
slowly aud surely the word elm
possible" is becoming obsolete in the
lexicon of surgery, as each year sees
triumphantly performed under the
scalpel OF the skilled practitioner
feats undreamed of a decade before.
Following rapidly upon the track Of
a successful operation in Texas In
which the diseased collar bono Of
patient was replaced by portion Of
the osseous anatomy OF sheep, came
the clean removal Of diseased lobe OF
a cf7ld's br"in in Philadelphia
hospital, the successful patching Of a
lacerated stomach. removed and re-
placed in tho operation. and most
remarkable case of bone grating in
New York.
: In the last instance the removed
bone Of lads calf was supplanted by
one from q spaniers leg, severed
end Of the latter being splinted to the
calf, and both boy and dog carefully
tended until the knitting was effected.
when the strange pair were separated
and human and canine patient nursed
back to heslth and strength.
These are but a few illustrations OF
tho strides taken by modern surgery.
But they suffice. even without further
trust In the future. to make average
humanity thankful for It's nineteenth
century existence.
When one OF Noah's grandchildren
lost tioger in hay cutter or AN arm
IN buzz-saw. or had All eye put out
or log cut of, or lost his hair or
teeth. he was forced to 60 without the
item thus deducted from his sum total
Tor the rest OF his mortal life. II is
hard to credit the amount Of patching
up that may now be accomplished by
the advanced processe and inventions
OF these days.
Suppose that man has lost Nil four
limbs. his hair. his eyes. his nose. all
his teeth and a portion of his palate;
he has fractured skull and tubercles
on his lungs. Tho gentleman may also
be covered with the pits OF an early
case of smallpox, and may have been
presented at his birth with q large
mole on his cheek.
First, OF course, he will have his
head trepanned by some skillful sur
geon, and whom he has had tho tuDer-
cles removed from his lungs by u
specialist in pulmonary diseases and
<axs recovered from the exhausting
affects OF these two operations he will
be in u proper state to have his eyes
attended to. A rabbit is selected
whose optics are of color becoming
70 the subject, and ono OF them is
'transplanted by means OF transtercnce.
iOf course he could hardly expect to
have both eyes successfully supplied
in this way. but supposing he has good
tuck and one grows satisfactorily, the
other socket. for the sake of beauty
aud symmetry. will be filled by one of
the glass eyes now manufactured to
such perfection.
His next proceeding will be to call
In a maker OF artificial limbs aud be
measured for full suit OF arms and
legs.
II the patient is fortunate enough to
have one arm down to the wrist, he
will be supplied with hand with
which no can manage to write little
and feed himself quito perfectly. His
lower limbs will convey him from
place to place. not very gracefully, to
be sure. but still as we'll US many
merely lame legs convey their owners,
ind which. sitting or resting. will
present. perhaps. o more symmetrical
appearance than the originals they
have succeeded.
The once total wreck is still bald,
toothlcss and disfigured with peck.
: marks and mole. An artificial set Of
tteoth. quite as good rs the original
.article and incapable of aching, will
be supplied by any good dentist and
The missing portion OF the palate also
will be furnished. Then the hair
would naturally be his next thought.
He may have hair or portions o.
scalp transplanted to the uncovered
Uranium. But this is ~ long and pain
ful process. so we will suppose that
the subject contents himself with ,
wig. Fortunately. in these days wig.
are made which are entirely deceptive
and. so far as appearance goes. lool
quite as we'll as natures own pro
.ductiou.
The beauty seeker next goes to thai
artist OF recent growth. the ''dermato
logist." who first destroys his mole BY
.'electrosis." and then gets to worl
upon the pockmarks. These ar
-smoothed by disiutegrating process
which Ioosens up the flbrous structure