The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-27
HOW FACES ARE NSENDED.
Some Marvellous Results Achieved by
the Modern Surgeon.

From London Answers q,
The nose is such a prominent feature
that it is apt to suffe'f severely when there
is anything of "Smash-up" and it ac-
cordingly happens that surgical skill is
very frequently called upon to patch up
broken noses, and sometimes even to
plant nose Where there is none. one
case, likely to be long known as the
blackbird cas- e. is recorded from the Lon
don Royal Free Hospital. A servant girl
was brought in with her nose smashed by
hydraulif. lift coming in contact with it,
The SURGE on sent out for blackbird, took
out the b reast-bone, and managed to in
sert 1t where the broken cartilage had
been, W It'll complete success in restoring
the ma DIS former appearance
A seN Iere task was set for the surgeons
of anc ther London hospital by an unfor-
tunats individual, who having by default
furn' shed with one. Willing to obige
him an amputated finger of another pa
tier i was grated on his face; but it was
fou nd that ampuration had caused the
fir ger to die, and it failed to take.
The undaunted "noseless' man then
agreed TO the surgeons suggestion that
one of his own (the patients) fingers
should be cut off to furnish the missing
nasal organ; but in order that the finger
should not be wasted, should the opera
tion prove unsuccessful, the patients arm
was enclosed in plaster, and for four
weeks he had to hold his finger to his face
in the hope of its taking root.
1t ultimately did and was then cut off
from the hand, and now remains fixed as
a nose, having been so manipulated that
1t can no longer be recognized as a finger,
and the process of shaping II is proceed
ing, SO that ultimately what is expected
TO be very passable nose Will be the re-
suit
There was recently seen at the Paris acad-
envy of medicine young woman to whom
DIR. Berger the eminent French surgeon,
had supplied an entire under LID in place
of the one nature had given her, which
she had accidentally lost. He had made
good the loss with a piece OF flesh cut
from her arm, and had accomplished the
substitution with remarkable skill There
was no apparent Disagreement about the
raj looking.
The French, when they wish colloauiallv
to refer to something that does not Ell isf
use the phrase IAN army pensioner with
an artificial head'-n1uch as we speslk Of
nent, of a Swiss acimiral.' But there has
now been found SC mething very Uke the
hrst-named DhenoInenon, for in a village
near Lille there lives a retired rfillerv-
man named MORGAN, who was a. hero on
the French side OF the war OF 1879
IN action he was wounded by a shell.
cared for by the surgeons, who were much
astonished to = nd him still alive at the
END or four day $. Nothing rsmained unin-
Jured of his fac but the forehead and law.
than thirty-hY pieces Of Done were taken
out OF the " ounded part. A wax mask
was resorted to to hide the hideous cavity
IN his race. Moreaus recovered. and for
years pied the government with petitions
70 De SUPPL ed with platinum mash, while n
ne al last got, some ten years ago IL an
swers wep only requiring to be repainted
from timf to time.
Dr. Pg IT, another Paris doctor of emf
nence, ecenly showed his colleagues OF
tne AGA denny a man, aged forty-one. from
Whom so much of the throat and windpiDe
had ~ zen removed In operating on tunors
that sDeech was lost An artificial iarynx
was made and inserted. and has restored
ms DICE The mechanism consists Of "A spi-
raj silver tube, covered with india rubber.
lnS erted in the throat or removed by the
~ tient himself.