The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-17
MENDING MANKIND.
Marvellous Results Achieved by
the Modern Surgeon.
A Noseless Man Has One of His Fingers
TrAnspianted to His Face and
. Man Who Lives Without
Face.

1heanOSe is such prominent feature
that it is apt to suffer severely when
there is anything of a "smash-up," and
it accordingly happens that surgical
skill is very frequently called upon 10
patch up broken noses, and sometimes
even to plant 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 sery-
ant girl was brought in with her nose
smashed by hydraulic lift coming in
contact with it. The surgeon sent out
for a blackbird, 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 un-
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 "noseless" 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 patents
arm was inclosed in plaster, and for
four weeks he had to hold his finger
to his face, in the hope of it's taking
root.
1t ultimately did, and was then cut
off from the hand, and now remains
fixed as nose, having been so manipI-
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 a very
passable nose will be the result.
There was recently seen at the Paris
academy of medicine a young woman
20 whom DR.. Berger, the eminent French
surgeon, had supplied an entire unde:
ip in place of the one nature had given
ier, which she bad accidentally lost
lie had made good the loss with piec.
of flesh cut from her arm, and had &C
complished the substitution with re-
markable skill. There was no appar-
cnt Disagreement about the mouth, and
the lip was red and quite natural look
ing.
The French, when they wish colo
1uially to refer to something that does
not exist, use the phrase san army per-
zioner with an artificial .head'-much
as we speak of the ''horse Marines" or
as, on the continent, of a "Swiss adj
miral." But. there has now been found
something very like the frst-named
,henomenon, for in a village near Lille
here lives a retired artilleryman named
Moreau, who was a hero on the French
side of the war Of 1870.
In action he was wounded by shell,
which exploded right in his face. lie
vas cared for by the surgeons, who were,
much astonished to find him still aliv,
It the end of four days. Nothing re-
NAMED uninjured of his face but The
forehead and jaw. An operation was
,erformed, and no fewer than 35 pieces
f bone were taken out of the wounded
art. A wax mask was resorted to to
lide the hideous cavity in his face. Mo-
eau recovered and for years piled the
~overnment with petitions to be sup
lied with a platinum mask, which he al
last got some ten years ago. 1t answers
veil, only requiring to be repainted
from time to time. s
DR.. Peau, another Paris doctorlof emf |
aence, recently showed his colleagues |
# 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
fificial larynx was made and inserted.
md has restored his voice The mechan-
SIN consists of a spiral silver tube COW
,red with india rubber, which causes
10 discomfort, and can be inserted in
he throat or removed by the patient
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