Daily camera., 1897-01-06
MENDING MANKIND.
Marvellous Results Achieved by
the Modern Surgeon.
A Noseless Man Has One of His Fingers
TrAnsplanted to His Face and Q
Man who Lives without
Face.


that it is apt to suffer severely when
there is anything of "smash-up," and
it accordingly happens that surgical
skill is very frequently called upon to
patch up broken noses, and sometimes
even to plant a nose where there is none.
One case, likely to be long known as
"the blackbird case" is recorded from
the London Royal Free hospital. A serv-
ant girl was brought in with her nose
smashed by a hydraulic lift coming in
contact with it. The surgeon sent out
fora black Bird took out the breast bone
and managed to insert it where the
broken cartilage had been, with COM
plete success in restoring the maids
former appearance.
A severe task was set for the surgeons
of another London hospital by an I'M
fortunate individual who, having by de-
fault of nature no nose at all, wanted
to be furnished with one. Willing to
oblige him, an amputated finger of an
other patient was grated on his face,
but it was found that amputation had
caused the finger to die, and it failed
to take.
The undaunted ''noseIess-' man then
agreed to the surgeons suggestion that
one of his own (the patient's) fingers
should be cut off to furnish the missing
nasal organ, but in order that the finger
should not be wasted, should the opera
ton prove unsuccessful, the patients
arm was inclosed in plaster, and for
four weeks he had to hold his finger
to his face, in the hope of its taking
root.
1T ult1rnates~ u'a. and was then cut
off from the nand, and now remains
fixed as nose, having been so manipl-
lated that it can no longer be recog-
: nized as a finger, and the process OF
shaping it is proceeding, so that ulti-
mately what is expected to be very
passabls nose will be the result.
There was recently seen at the Paris
academy of medicine a young woman
to whom DR.. Berger, the eminent French
surgeon, had supplied an entire under
lip in place of the one nature had given
her, which she had accidentally lost.
He had made good 4Le loss. with piece
of flesh cut from her arm, and had ac
complished the substitution with re-
markable skill. There was no appar
ent Disagreement about the mouth, and
Sohe lip was red and quite natural look
ing
The ~'rencn, Nvr1en uney wish collo-
quially 70 re-er TO something that does
not exist. use the phrase San army pen
sioner with an artificial head''-much
as we speak of the "horse marines" or
as, on the continent of Swiss adj
miral" But there has now been found
something very like the first-named
phenomenon, for in village near Lille
! there lives retired artilleryman named
Moreau. who was a hero on the French
side of vue war OF 1870.
In action ne was wounded by shell,
which exploded right in his face. lie
was cared for by the surgeons, who were
much astonished to find him still alive
at the end of four days. Nothing re-
mained uninjured of his face but the
forehead and jaw. An operation was
performed, and no fewer than 35 pieces
OF bone were taken Oub Oh Ulle WOuuutu
part. A wax mask was resorted to to
hide the hideous cavity in his face. Mo-
reau recovered and for years piled the
government with petitions to be sup
Piled with platinum mask, which he at
last got some ten years ago. 1t answers
well, only requiring to be repainted
from time to time.
y DR.. Peau, another Paris doctor of emf
|nnence, recently showed his colleagues
pf the academy a man, aged Al, from
whom so much of the throat and wind
pipe had been removed in operating on
tumors that speech was lost. An ar
tificial larynx was made and inserted,
and has restored his voice. The mechan-
isE consists of spiral silver tube COW
ereo with india rubber, which causes
no discomfort, and can be inserted in
the throat or removed by the patient
himsef.-London Answers.