The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-17
AN ALUMINIUM NOSE.
a New Yorker With an Artificial Nose
of a New Kind.
From the Ne,O York World.


of a New Kind.
From the NelU York World
really serviceable artificial nose has
been devised by several surgeons of this
| city. A World reporter was yesterday per-
misted to see the first Of these novel pro-
| jections that has ever been made, and more
than this, TO see 1t tried on a live subject
who was unfortunate enough to lack nasal
piece.
There have been artificial noses Of a kind
| before this, but they were clumsy, uDman-
ageable things and liable to fall off at any
time il slightly Jared or pointed toward a
| stiff nor'weSt wind. Artificial eyes, false
teeth, game legs and even wax hands have
long been common affairs among persons
who have been deprived of those members,
but thoroughly reliable, weather-proof,
| wind proof, counterfeit nose has never be-
| fore been placed on the market The kind
that has heretofore been used required the
constant use of. specbacles drawn tightly
| over the bridge of the nose TO hold it in
place. II the wire Of the glasses became by
the slightest movement disarranged off
tumoled the nose, exposing the horribly de-
| formed face. The new cOntrivance fits as
snugly and securely as false teeth.
! Last spring Dr. N. j. Towsley of Verzen-
nes, Vt, came to this city to be operated
upon for epithelinme, or cancer of the nose.
| The doctor is considerably past threesc )re
and ten, aud s been praotciDg physic-
ian In his native little town for more than
half a century. His life has not been the
luxurious, easy one of a city prac itioner,
but that OF a country doctor, which means
! all sorts of hardships. For more than fifty
years be has been accustomed to getting up
at various hours of the night and riding
through ali kinds of weather long distances
on horseback TO serve his patients, for III
his section of the country doctors are few
aud far between. When age began to
weigh heavily on his shoulders
these journeys began to leave
steJe Of Vermont soon became too much for
the old gentleman. but still he never refused
to go when called for, and he would get up
in the dead of night, with the snow a foot
deep, saddle his horse and ride probably
twelve or fifteen miles through the almost
impossible roads, with the thermometer
twelve points or more below zero Then in
many cases he would find when he reached
his destination that the patient was suffer
ing from slight attack of headache or
some other similarly trivial complaint
And worse than all, when the bill was sent
In maybe it was paid and maybe not. 1t
was on Just such a journey as this several
winters ago that DR.. TowsIey's nose was
frozen. After treating 1t carefully to no
avail epithelima set In.
When he presented himself at Roosevelt
hospital last lspring,s for treatment DR..
Charles McBurney examined the diseased
nose and at once decided b do away with it
in order to save the patients life This was
done successfully by DR.. McBurney and sew
eral other hospital physicians and in due
course Of time DR.. Towsley recovered suffi-
oently from the effects OF the operation 10
return to Vergennes. But the absence of
"A nose was a constant worry 30 the old
gentleman and, after consulting again with
DR.. McBurney, It was decided 20 make him
q nose.
The old style artificial noses have been
made Of wood, pOrcelain or rubber. Aside
from never fitting they we're as ill-shaped
as 10 accurate lines and natural color as q
wooden leg. DR.. ALERT Westake OF No. %
East Twenty first street, who IL known 20
excel m tbis branch OF surgery was called
Ia, and upon him deyolvOd the principal
burden Of making Dr. Towslsy's nose. He
examined the stamp or bone left and took