The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-03-21
HOW TO CURE a RED NOSE.

HOW 70 CURE A RED NOSE.
A Physician Makes Some Remarks About
Remedy for Teddy Blossoms.
What shall do for this nose, doe.
tor p said the patient with the infamed
proboscis, anxiously. '.If it gets any
redder MY influence as teacher in the
Sunday school will be totally gone"
The physician gazed upon the organ
submitted to his diagnosis with coldly
scientific eye.
DO yousstimulate % he inquired.
Drink, you mean j? Me % cried the
patient. Not a drop of spirits ever
crosses my lips. My. standing in the
church"
''Then tits as / thought y rejoined the
doctor, calmly. yours is beer nose.
Therefore, do not think I shall have
much difficulty in effecting cure. Per.
NIT me-
Holding powerful magnifying glass
at a distance of about four inches from
the organ under inspection. he gave a
more critical examination to what APP.
peared when thus enlarged to be an un-
pleasant-looking swelling, with an ir-
regular surface and small blotches.
Having completed a minute inspection,
the physician leaned back in his chair
and said dogmatically:
Your nose does pretty we'll for a
beer nose, but it might be very much
worse. The worse and most persistent
red noses are produced by drinking.
Whisky, you suggest? BY no means.
Wine, especially Burgundy,is the nose
coloring beverage par excellence. Next
comes brandy, the effect of which is
usually rich purple tint in patches -
But you quite misunderstood" vent
ured the patient at last. 81 never take
drop of any thing-not even beer A
little of sarsaparilla, occasionally, it is
''Never heard of a sarsaparilla nose,"
. said the doctor, shortly. II must say
that yours counterfeits a beer nose as
tonishingly well. If it is not really
such you are certainly unfortunate for
beer nose yields readily to treatment
which is very far from icing the case
with what must be the complaint you
suffer from. This is, as I now per-
ceive, a trouble of chronic nature"
DO you mean to say that am like
~ to suffer from it indefnitely?''
II can not say. My expectation is
that judicious treatment, surgical and
otherwise, in your case, will accomplish
much. Your trouble is hyperemic
condition of the hair follicles It is not
50 very uncommon, and, when it affects
the clergymen and other persons with
whom purity and responsibility are, so
to speak. professional much EN- barrass-
ment frequently ensues. The notion
that red noses result only from drinking
is popular delusion which has ruined
more good men than any other cause
know of. A victim of a complaint such
as yours can not 60 around with pla-
card saying: I am not an esoteric bum
mer, despite my appearance Some
times red noses much more aggravated
than yours are produced by skin dis
ease known as acne roseata,' and also
by incipient lupus tnbercular affec-
ton engendered by the same germs that
make consumption of the lungs"
''But what can You do for me doc
tor?''
my method of treatment for all kinds
of red noses is with the knife.''
'tOtpchp'
Either with the knife simply, that il
to- say, Or with the knife associated with
galvanoeautery. Therefore 1 shall
operate by thoroughly scarifying the
skin, and you will find that when it has
healed, ten OF twelve days hence the
redness will be much less. At the same
time shall apply fifteen per cent.
solution of muriate of cocoaine, which
has the effect of educating the superb
claE blood vessels. If three or four such
operations at two-week intervals do not
produce cure I will try this instru-
Ments, which as you see, has num-
Der of little knives set parallel to
one another, with needle behind
each knife. The needles are connected
with battery of a few cells and a cur
rent passed through them serves to eau
terize the cuts as quickly as they are
made. This latter process will usually
cure the most aggravated red nose. At
all events the processes 1 mention rep
resent the farthest advance thus far
made by science in this line of surgical
investigation. It must be understood,
however, that it is not possible to cure
any sort of a toddy nose unless the pa
tient abstains from intoxicants WHY
it is that alcohol occasions hyperemia
and degeneration of the tissue at the
extremity of the nasal organ, is more
than any one has thus far been able to
Observation-Disclosures Post.