The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-12
EARs AND NOSES TO oapER.

EARS AND MOSES TO O2OER.
Al Sizes and Eyery shAp~, Cuar.n.eed &c
GIVE Gntire >.st-srecion.
The accidents ana diseases to whicli
the nasal and other organs arc liable
are much mole numerous than the Or
binary thinker supposes, and the mum
Der Of people TO &c met with who are
wearing false ears or noses without the
knowledge of any but their most init
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 eye
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 rulcanized
the piece was painted by an artist in oil
cOlOr5, as near the color OF the skin OF
the intended wearer as it was possible
to get il. OF course, the great objec-
ton was the wearing OF the glasses.
Few persons cared to injure their or
CANS OF vision even to cover UP facial
ceformity. Springs had been tried, but
were not in general use up to within
very short period. owing TO the suppos;-
ton 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
IL 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 DIR.
Hopes in 1860, DR.. Bracket, of New
port, r. l., in 1874, and Prof. WildmaD
in 1868.
All the old methods have been super
seded by 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 chat with
Herald reporter bout the matter lately
the gentleman referred 30 said: 1T
was mere accident, my giving any at
tention to the matter at all. A friend
of mine had lost his nose through an
liberated tooth, and asked me to try
and make him one. gave much time
TO the matter, and finally succeeded in
making him 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 | experienced was in getting
the artificial nose painted a natural
color, and for that purpose my friend
was obliged to pass considerable time
in an artists chair. He is not in this
city now. and the people where he now
resides would not believe if told that
he was wearing false one. l next ex-
perimented on making an ear, and | re-
mem Der that my frst patient was a
young man whose folks mad 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 a hog came along and got in lit
tie playful sport by chewing off one of
the babys ears. This ear proved an
entire success, and 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 clearly as if with knife
''No l do not use any of the old ma !
terials; l make my noses and ears OF /
aluminium on account OF the lightness
of the material; lhey 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. 1t is possible to adjust por.
ton of nose or ear with such nicely
and have it painted so nearly to resem-
bic the skin that covers other portions
Hf the face that you might pass per.
son wearing such dozen times week
on the street and still not detect it OF
course, if you were told 'So-and- So
was wearing a 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 80 so
long that they have almost forgotten
the fact themselves" These appliances
cost about one hundred dollars Boston
Herald.
Ha.slng gran alone ana seIlng on