The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-17
FEATURES REMODELED.
IF YOU DON'T FANCY YOUR NOSE
OR EARS THEY ARE ALTER ed.

Transformed ana OrOOke0 NOSES
strai9htened - Ears Remodeled.
How These Things Are Done.
From the Neto York Sun.
For a reason that has never been fully
axulained pug noses are not popular. even
WHARF they have been known to be becom-
ing 70 certain types Of pretty faces. 1t will
ba glad news to possessors Of the retrousse
Dsttern of nose, therefore, to hear that per-
sons who have pug noses and don't like
them can part with them. and adopt those
of A more approved pattern in a weeks
time. A still more sensational surgical fact
a that those who have big mouths can
have them reduced in size by similar feat
If surgical magic, or can have them made
bigger if they think their mouths are too
ANAL. Large mouths are, il anything,
avsn more unpopular than "turn-up" noses,
despite the fact that phrenologists assert
that. like big noses. big mouths are tndica-
tive of the possession OF large heart and
an amiable disposition.
man with a mouth OF normal size,
adorned with a mustacbe Of graceful out
line made the announcement that the
DOCTORS lancet could now accomplish this
astonishing sort OF surgical trickery as nom
chalantly as he might have said that cook
oould peel potato or slice tomato. be
sat in a parlor in West Forty second street,
and spread before him were photographs
from life which proved the truth of the
staternents that he afterward made. He
gas DIR. Pitkin, a surgeon who has devoted
several years to the delicate job OF trans
forming the cOuntenances oftpatients who
ohieoked to the noses, mouths, and ears
that nature had given them.
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simplest thing in the world 10 change your
face IL you want" he said quietly, land the
feat is being accomplished now every day
on the face of persons who think that an
other style of countenance would become
them better than the one with which they
were born. Experience proves that their
noses give folks more bother than their ears
or their mouthA They want pugs or Roman
noses or crooked noses made straight, and
strengthening them up for these patients
has devel oped into genuine surgical art.
The transformation Of a woman's pug nose,
orr rstrousse nose as we call it nowadays,
into an aquiline nasal organ that will be an
ornament to her face is the simplest Of the
feats of improved dermatology, and is the
operation which Is performed most fire.
quently.
'How do you get rid OF the pugl" said
the visitor eagerly.
"By cutting away the cartilage of the
ssptum, or the tissue wall that separates
the nostrils Anybody who thinks for a
moment Of what makes a pug nose point
skyward will recognize how rational the
remedy ia 80 to speak. A small V-shaped
section is out out of the cartilage between
the end of the nose and the point of juno
ture with the upper lip, and the edges OF
the cut are then sewed together with thin
thread. Cocaine Is sprayed on the nose TO
make the operation painless. When the
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of the wound drawn together, the operation,
as you can readily understand. draws the
point of the nose downward TO graceful
angle. This angle can be regulated at will
by carefully judging the amount of cartila-
ginous tissue to be cut away. The drawing
down Of the point OF the nose naturally
spreads the nOetrils, which would be as I'M
slightly perhaps as the elevation of the end
of the nose. This spreading is prevented
by the use Of metallic clasp devised by
John Woodbury., which is called ''nose
vice. 1t consists OF two thin fat semi
circular bars Of metal, about two inches In
length and about quarter Of an inch Ia
width. They fasten together IN parallel
surfaces with a screw at either end This
little nose vsie is slid down over the end Of
the nose, with the curved edge of the paral-
lei bars turned outward, and the screws are
frightened until the metal presses the nos
trils against the septum tight enough to
keep them from spreading. The wise Is put
on the nose at night and Kept on for several
hours, being held in place by silk bandage,
which passes over the ears and ties bshind
the head. 1t is possible to go to sleep With
your nose literally in wise. The wound
made by the operation heals in three or
-four days the nose wise is removed, and be-
hold the Objectionable pug of a few days
ago has become aquiline in its outline, and
the face that has been marred by the sky
ward tilt OF the nose has become handsome.
A few weeks later all mark of the magic
transformation will have disappeared. The
rapdity with which the change can be
made is one of the marvels that illustrate
the Immense stride that has been made in
she science of dermatology."
But how about a Roman nosei How do
you get rid of the hump9"
Easier" replied the surgeon, "easier, IL
anything, than we Danish the pug feature.
The flesh OF the nose is cut on either side of
the hump, a hook is inserted in the flesh,
and 1t is held away from the bone by an as
sstant It doesn't seem pleasant TO think
OF having hook stuck IN your nose, but
that is mere sentiment for it DOESN'T hurt
when cocaine has been spread on the flesh.
While the skin is raised, a steel burr, which
Is small drill run by an electric motor, is
pressed against the hump OF the bone, and
the hump is quickly ground away. All
shat then remains to do is to take the hook
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where they have been cut, sew them to-
Rether. bandage up the nose, and wait for
1t to heal. When il does, the removal of
the bsndage reveals nose that hasn't the
slightest suggestion of the noble old Roman
hump to it.
Crooked noses that will land men either
10 the roadway or up against the side of a
house If they were to follow their noses, and
noses that have been smashed, can be quite
as readily Strengthened and mended. The
operation by which John L. Sullivan's nose
Will be rebuilt after Champion Corbett's de-
mollshIng blow upon it will illustrate the
method and the ease with which such things
can be done nowadays 1t is possible to
skllfully conceal the fact that a nose has
been smashed down on a mans face. This
Is accomplished by creating an artificial
bridge. This is done by inserting a lancet
called needle knife In the side near the up
per part Of the nose The needle knife is a
lancet with a thin and narrow blade about
nalr an inch long on the end Of a round bar
lke the handle Of small button-hook. It
delicate implement, exactly suited to
tne purpose. The knife can he inserted in
tne flesh, and the latter cut away from the
broken bone, without enlarginR the hole
made by pushing it into the flesh WHEN the
operation is begun. When the flesh has
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