Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-02-12
MENDING MAN.

The nose is such prominent feature
that It is apt to suffer severely when
there is anything of a "smash-up," and
q accordingly happens that surgical
skill is very frequently called upon to
match up broken noses, and sometimes
even TO plant a nose where there is
none saws London Answers. One case,
likely to be known as "the blackbird
case" Is recorded from the London
free Hospital. A servant girl was
brought In with her nose smashed by
hydraulic lift coming in contact with
Il The surgeon sent out for black
bird. took out the breast bone and man.
AGED to insert it where the broken cart
lace had been, with complete success in
restoring the maids former appearance
A severe task was set for the sur
icons of another London hospital by
an unfortunate individual who having
nv default of nature no nose at all,
wanted to be furnished with one. Will
ing to oblige him an amputated finger
srcther patient was grated on his
t.ce but It was found that amputation
had caused the finger to die, and 1t fall
ed to take
THE undaunted "noseless" man then
agreed to the surgeons suggestion that
one of his own (the patient's) fingers
.hould be cut off to furnish the missing
nasal organ, but in order that the finger
should not be wasted, should the opera
,,or prove unsuccessful, the patients
arm was Enclosed In plaster, and fol
four weeks he had to hold his finger tc
his face In the hope of It taking root.
II ultimately did and then was cut of
from the hand, and now remains fixed
As nose, having been so manipulated
that 1t can no longer be recognized as
finger, and the process of shaping 1t II
proceeding, so that ultimately what II
lexpected to be very passabie nose vii
be the result.
There was recently seen at the Pari
Academy of Medicine young woman
owhom DIR. Berger, the eminent French
surgeon, had supplied an entire unde
lin In place of the one nature had givei
her, which she had accidently lost. II
had made good the loss with piece
flesh cut from her arm, and had
nlished the substitution with remarkabl
skill. There was no apparent disfgure
ment about the mouth, and the lip wa
red and quite natural looking.
The French, when they wish collie
ouially to refer to something that doe
not exist, use the phrase ian army per
sioner with an artificial head"-muc
as we speak of the "horse Marines" O
as, on the Continent, of "Swiss a
miraI." But there has now been foun
something very like the frst-named ph'
nomenon. for in a village near LII
Mean, who was hero on the Frenc
Noe of the war of 1870.
" In action he was wounded by shell
which exploded right in his face. ID
was cared for by the surgeons, who wei
much astonished to find him still aliV
at the end of four days. Nothing r
mainedzuniniured of his face but TT
forehead and jaw. An operation wi
performed, and no fewer than s. piec'
of bone were taken out of the wounde
par A wax max was resorted to
hide the hideous cavity in his face M
eau recovered and for years piled Il
government with petitions to be supple
with a platinum mask, which he at la
got some ten years ago. 1t answers we
only requiring to be painted from tin
to time.
DIR. Peau, another Paris doctor OF en-
nence, recently showed his colleagu
of the Academy q man. aged Al, FRO
whom so much of the throat and win
pipe had been removed in operating
tumors that speech was lost. An arti
cial larynx was made and inserted al
has restored his voice. The mechanls
consists of a spiral silver tube cover
with India rubber, which causes no o.
comfort. and can be inserted IN
throat or removed by the Patieut NIL
self
BIRDS THAT WON'T SIT.