The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-06
GOT A NEW SEPTUM.
Remarkable Operation at the Goo
Samaritan Hospital.

Remarkable Operation at the Good
Samaritan Hospital.
BY the sacrifice Of twO-mOnths-old calf
and the eXertion of great deal Of surgical
skill an Iowa woman received new bridge
for her nose yesterday In the Good Samari-
tan Hospital, on Jefferson avenue, at the
western terminus of O'Fallon street. says
the st. Louis Globe-D Democrat. Butcher
Charles Tamme gave the calf its Quietus
and cut off its nose, and DR.. Scott Il. Par
sons fitted part Of the cartilaginous men,
brane into the face Of the woman. The pa
tent is about 80 years old, and certainly
needed scientific attention. Not only had
she no cartilaginOus membrane in her nose,
but the disease had attacked the frontal
bone, and much of II had come out in pieces
through an opening between the eyebrows.
There was a circular depression in the paTi-
etal bone, just back of the Turn IN the fore
head two inches in diameter, and another
depression of irregular shape over the right
eye. The wounds that were made by the
suppuration OF soft tissue and by the decay
of the bone had healed, but the bridge OF
the nose had sunk TO level with the eyes.
The little woman glded into the room on
the arm of q stout nurse and approached
the operating table without tremor. She
slid big shawl from her shoulders pushed
off a pair of high-heeled brown leather
slippers, ana sat down Oh the edge of the
table while tie surgeon talked to the class
At his sign the patient pushed bach bunch
of false bangs from her forehead, showing
the dreadful Tavages the disease had made
upon once shapely head and handsome
face She was pale, but as anxious for the
operation TO begin as though she we're some
body else.
Dr. Burlelgh reached for his ether-chloro-
form with one hand and for the napkin
folded into cone with the other. The linen
cone was covered with another made of
newspaper, compelling the patient to inhae
only the gas. As soon as the anesthetic be-
gan to take effect the little woman COM
menced to talk, and kept it up for two or
three minutes. The condition of insensi-
bility was announced by dropping of the
law and the emission of a terrible whistl-
ing snOre, that must have been a sore affic-
lion to the inmates of the lady's household.
1t even caused the lady students present to
fidget and look askance at their classmates
of the sterner sex.
DR. Parsons needed neither the fidgeting
nor the snores. He waited while DIR. Bur-
leigh crowded the anesthetizing process to
the proper point, and then picked up his
knife.
First an incisiOn from the posterior part
of one nostril to the top of the nose was
made, and then the same was done with the
opposite side. This allowed about three
quarters Of an inch of the nose TO fall down
over the upper up SOIIOh was tucH iustlltu
into the nasal passages and the whistling
snore ceased. DR.. Burleigh kept the cone
npon the patients mouth, while DR.. Parsons
suppressed the hemorrhage and measured
the place into which he wished to insert
the bovine cartilage. Then, taking card
from his pocket, he cut out triangular
piece about X inches long and half an
inch wide at the base. All this time the
owner of the aforesaid cartilage was
breathing through it, down in the court
yard OF The hospital. and believing Justify.
The girl students, who didn't know
what the calf was there for, looked
down on him compassionatey. About this
time DR.. Parsons nodded to one of the STU
dents of the senior class. As he left the
| in a badly controlled barytone voice. A
| AID in five minutes from the time when the
large tin pail covered with clean
| lust been yielded by Its owner as an invol-
the operators sideboard and deftly carved
| by DR.. Burleigh. the chief surgeon giving
| all his attention to the unconscious woman.
When the general shape of the human sep
tum had been secured DIR. Parsons
took the fragment and trimmed Ii
to the exact dimensions. Then he in
serted it within the wound and ad-
| justed it in place with delicate forceps,
| Previously he had abraded the bone surface,
against which the false cartilage was 10
| rest, in order to guard as far as possible
against additional suppuration. As he did