The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-15
TO BUILD EAR
ON HEAD OF MAN
Dr.. helden Of New York Under.
takes Delicate Operation.
Is NEPHEW OF SALT LAKER
RESTAURANT KEEPER MAKES A
SACRIFICE FOR $1,000.
is NEPHEW OF SALT LAKER

DR.. A. L. Nelden. nephew of the well
Known Salt Lake business man, w. 4.
Nelden. has achieved surgical fame at
q bound by proposing to graft a human
ear on the head of "a man who has lost
one of his aural appendages. Incl
dentally. the public was treated TO the
shock Of an advertisement calling for
samples OF ears and Offering $1,000 i'm
cold cash for the one that proved most
acceptable.
The loss OF an ear Is not a matter to
De contemplated lightly; witness that
$4,000 offer on behalf Of the man who
has lost one and who, by the way. Is
so far nameless and mysterious. He is
said 90 be a western mining man who
found q fortune and lost an ear at the
same time
But despite the pain notwithstanding
that must be undergone by the sue
"essful applicant I'm this unique opera
ton. no less than 600 persons offered
TO give up an ear for the mining man
and his $1,000.
Women and Girls Volunteer.
Among those who volunteered were
many women and young girls. There
was one impelling motive-they Az
needed the money-aud to crafty this
ihey were willing to 60 through the re-
mainder of their DAYS minus one Of
their ears. OF course the great major
ity Of those who applied were elm
mated at once. Half hundred re-
manned on the eligible list, and this was
soon sifted down TO half a dozen who
We're deemed possible subjects for the
operation.
The matching Of an ear is no easy
matter. In order that the beneficiary
or the experiment shall not look too
obviously One-sided, the ear to be graft
ca must measure and look like the ear
winch providence permitted the mining
man TO get away with after the acct
cent And so all the volunteer ears
We're carefully tested by measurements
ard otherwise. and finally the right one
was selected./ The lucky parsonage
ls an impoverished restaurant keeper.
He has signed an elaborate document
forever reinquishing all right title and
interest In the ear which is soon to
form part of another mans anatomy.
Many Pathetic Tales.
Many pathetic tales were brought to
Aght by the offer OF DR.. Nelden. one
girl had a sweetheart in far-Cff Switzer-
land whom she had not seen for three
years. She was willing to 20 to him
WIN but one ear If she could carry
@7,UOO along as a dot" Another wo-
man wanted to send her little con-
sumptlFe son to a western health resort.
here is DR. Nelden's descriptions Of how
the operation is TO be performed:
II have ordered a special table twelve
Feet long TO be used by the two persons
the loser and the gamer of an ear
while the ear Is growing fast i'm its
pace. The middle section viii be solid
and rigid so that there viii be no
chance for any motion Of the heads.
From the shoulders down there win be
springs for each patient.
Operation a Simple One.
The operation is really very sim
pie. as any communicable disease and
even some hereditary taints might be
transmitted Before the operation is
completed, as soon as the first incision
is made, i'm fact the 5000 will be paid
TO the friend or representa- tive of the
one who is to lose the ear.
The skin must be removed from the
surface of the face of the one who is
20 get the new ear. Then L shall slit
the perfect ear down from the TOP. cut
ting as close to the face as possible and
leaving 1t attached by the lobe to keen
up the circulation while il is growing
I'm ITS new place. The ear viii be stitched
10 the head of my patient and a plss-
ter cast fixed to bind the head AMI
shoulders Of the two tightly together
At the end of ten days union viii be
complete, and the ear viii be detached
entirely from the place where il grew. %
Expert in His Business.
W. a. Nelden OF this city visited his
nephew I'm New York about a year ago
and was much astOnished at the success
the young surgeon had met with. Ha
was with the famous DR. Woodbury. for
years before he branched out for him
self. His specially is facial disdeura-
ments. and he has succeeded in mary
instances in successfully grating
noses and pieces OF skin to take the
place of unsightly moles and birth
marks. Such little things as reducipa
Roman noses and straighteuirE the or.
fensive pug noses were quite common
TO him.
BY tightening the skin through an
operation he has brought apparent
youth back To numerous women 10y
removing wrinkles. This is the first
time he has undertaken TO build q new
ear. and the result OF his experiment IS
being watched with much interest by
his IN,