The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-22
COMPOSITE HUMANITY
MAN MAY BE BOUND IN HALF
CALF OR DOGSklN.
BY Swapping Skin and Bones With the Rrutes.
tho Future Man May Cast Sleeps
Eyes at His Fellow in Earnest
Borrowed Noses. ... .

NS"AJ 'Hu surely tu0 WOFu lin
possible is becoming obsolete in the
lexicon OF surgery, as each year sees
triumphantly performed under the
Bcalpel OF the skilled practitioner
feats undreamed of decade before.
Following rapidly upon the track of
a successful operation in Texas in
which the diseased collar bone of a
patient was replaced by a portion of
the osseous anatomy of sheep, came
the clean oval of diseased lobe of
chllds brain in a Philadelphia
hospital, the successful patching of a
lacerated stomach, removed and re-
placed in the operation, and a most
remarkable case of bone grating in
New York.
In the last instance the removed
Done OF a lads calf was supplanted by
one from a spaniers leg, a 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 health and strength.
These are but few illustrations of
the 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 finger in a hay cutter or an arm
in buzz-saw, or had all eye put out
or leg cut off, or lost his hair or
teeth. he was forced to go without the
item thus deducted from his sum total
Tor the rest of his mortal life. Il is
hard to credit the amount of patching
up that may now be accomplished by
the advanced processes and inventions
Of these days.
Suppose that man has lost all four
limbs, his hair, his eyes, his nose, all
his teeth>and a portion of his palate;
be has fractured skull and tubercles
On his lungs. The gentleman may also
be covered with the pits of an early
case of smallpox, and may have been
presented at his birth with large
mole on his cheek
First, of course, he will have his
head trepanned by some skillful sur
geon, and when he has had the tuDer-
cles removed from his lungs by a
specialist in pulmonary diseases and
has recovered from the exhausting
effects of these two operations he will
be in proper state to have his eyes
attended to. A rabbit is selected
whose optics are of color becoming
to the subject, and one of them is
transplanted 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, will be filed by one of
the glass eyes Eow manufactured to
SUCH perfection.
His next proceeding will be to call
in a maker Of artificial limbs and 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 a hand with
which he can manage to write 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 resting, will
present. perhaps, a more symmetrical
appearance than the originals they
have succeeded.
The once total wreck is still bald.
toothless and disfgured with pock-
marks and a mole. An artificial set of
teeth, quite as good as 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 of
scalp transplanted to the uncovered
Uranium. But this is a long and pain
ful process, so we will suppose that
the subject contents himself with a
wig. Fortunately, in these days wigs
are made which are entirely deceptive
and, so far as appearance goes, look
quite as we'll as natures own pro-
duction.
The beauty seeker next goes to that
artist of recent growth, the ''dermato-
logist,' who first destroys his mole by
''electrosis." and then gets to work
upon the pockmarks. These are
smoothed by disintegrating process,
which loosens up the fbrous structure
OF the scars and smooths down the
whole face by sort of planning
method. He is still distigured by the
want OF a nose, certainly most i'm
portant lack in human countenance.
This feature may now be supplied by
surgery by transplanting a fold of
flesh from some living arm, which is
held near to the face to be repaired
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