Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-08
EARS AND NOSES To ORDER.
All Sizes and Every Shape, Guaranteed t,
 Give Entire Satisfaction.

All Sizes and Every Shape, Guaranteed to Give Entire Satisfaction.
 The accidents and diseases to which the nasal and other organs are liable are much more numerous than the or. dinary thinker supposes, and the mum. Der of people to be met with who are wearing false ears or noses without the knowledge of any but their most inti. mate friends would prove quite sur prising if it could be made known. The old manner of attaching a false nose to the face was by means of eve glasses, and the substances used were either wax, celluloid. wood porcelain, or vulcanite. The aforementioned sub. stance was mostly in favor because of its lightness, strength, and small liabil- ity to injury. After being vulcanized the piece was painted by an artist in oil colors, as near the color of the skin of the intended wearer as it was possible to get it. Of course, the great obiec- tion was the wearing of the glasses Few persons cared to iniure their or gans of vision even to cover up a facial deformity. Springs had been tried, but were not in general use up to within a very short period, owing to the supposi- tion that they would interfere with cir. culation, or cause irritation, resulting in inflammation or absorption of the tissues. The bone in the nose is most sensitive, and once disease has touched , it decay is rapid. Nearly all dental works give examples of cases that have been treated with more or less success at different periods, some of the best known being those performed by Dr. Hoopes in 1860, Dr. Braclzett, of New port, R. l., in 1874, and Prof. Wildman in 1863.
 All the old methods have been super seded by a Boston dentist, who has in- vented a new system of springs by which not only a whole nose or ear may be attached to the head and face and be passed on the street without detection by the ordinary pedestrian, but any small portion of either may be affixed in the same manner. In a chat with a Herald reporter about the matter lately the gentleman referred to said: Tt was mere accident, my giving any at tention to the matter at all A friend of mine had lost his nose through an ulcerated tooth, and asked me to try and make him one. gave much time to the matter, and finally succeeded in making him a nose that fitted his face so snugly and gave him so little trouble that to say he was delighted with it would be putting it mildly. The great est trouble l experienced was in getting the artificial nose painted a natural color, and for that purpose my friend was obliged to pass considerable time in n arfiSt'c nhoir. Fa ;S ,,, |, ,:,I city now, and the people where he now resides would not believe if told that he was wearing false one. I next ex- perimented on making an ear and re- member that my first patient was a young man whose folks had lived in the country when he was an infant where one day an older sister carried him out into field and left him to play, when hog came along and got in lit tie playful sport by chewing off one of the baby's ears. This ear proved an entire success, and I had applications for others. The next applicant for an ear had had one bitten off in a street row and another gentleman had been thrown from sulky and had an ear severed as cleanly as if with knife.
 No, l do not use any of the old ma terials; I make my noses and ears of aluminium on account of the lightness of the material; they are then covered with muslin, which is afterward painted Five times out of the seven the loss of the nose is caused by abscess teeth (abscess centrals), which break just in- side the nostrils; the disease then at- tacks the bone, which decays very rapidly. Sometimes a portion of it is saved, but this is the exception and not the rule. It is possible to adjust DOT tion of nose or ear with such nicety and have it painted so nearly to resem- ble the skin that covers other portions of the face that you might pass a per- son wearing such dozen times a week on the street and still not detect it. Of course, if you were told 'So-and-So' was wearing false nose or ear you would be looking for it, and probably discover the line of demarcation; but you would not always be successful even then. There are dozens of people to be met with on the streets daily who are wearing some such appliance and many of them have been doing so so long that they have almost forgotten the fact themselves. These appliances cost about one hundred dollars Boston Haro11