The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-02

made several hundred noses. They are
not" he went on, "as beautiful as Lii
liam Russells or as Dante's, but at
least they enable man to get a job
and find a girl who will marry him
and neither jobs nor girls are open to
the noseless man.
In a little while his patient arrived.
The man had very little nose. There
were only two nostrl holes, and
lump, where the bridge should have
been, less than a half-inch high. He
took off his coat and collar and seated
himself in the operating chair.
The surgeon put morsel Of paraf1ine
in little saucepan, and added a small
portion of isinglass to it. He set this
mixture over an alcohol lamp to melt,
and, while it was melting, he injected
into his patients nasal region the CO.
caine that would make the flesh insen-
sible to pain. When the mixture was
melted it resembled water, but it hard
ened into a soft white substance, like
wet clay, very quickly. The surgeon
took up some of it in a little hypoder-
mic syringe of glass and silver and ap-
preached the patient.
Il add vaseline to the paraffine," he
said, ito keep this wax from harden
ing in the syringe; the paraffine would
harden. as soon as it left the fire. Clog
ging the syringe, it would refuse to
f1ow The isinglass 1 add for a very
different reason. The isinglass is to
keep the paraffine, after it has once
hardened, firm. Without it paraffine
nose would melt in hot weather like a
piece of ice."
He stuck the fine point of the syr-
inge's needle beneath the skin of his
patients nose, and injected slowly the
melted paraffine into the flesh. The in
jected wax gradually hardened, and, as
this process of hardening went on, the
surgeon moulded with his fingers the
nose that he was building. One syringe
full of wax was not enough; he had to
add a second one before the nose was
big enough to suit him. And this nose,
as the wax composing it hardened into
a mass of about the same firmness as
human flesh, the surgeon moulded with
his fingers into an attractive shape.
The whole operation did not consume
over an hour.
The patient, at the end, seemed we'll
pleased with his new nose. AS he de-
parted he kept touching it here and
there with the fingers of his left hand.
"The trouble with paraffine noses"
said the surgeon, lis that in extremely
hot weather they are apt to soften. In
such crises the owner of paraffine
nose is in an embarrassing position.
There is nothing for him to do but rush
at once into a sequestered place and
~ nd
moulding strokes of the hand, build up
the collapsed and faced organ into
solidity and shapeliness again. This
objection doesn't apply to celluloid
noses. In the celluloid operation a nose
bridge of celluloid is built, the patients
nose is cut open, the bridge is inserted
and the wound is sewed up again.
There are over 1000 people in the
United States with celluloid nose
bridges. These devices are as durable
as bone itself, and no inconvenience of
any kind is suffered freSa them"
In another private room a patient in
mask of white rubber had very
CHASTITY look.
HE is having smallpox pittings re-
moved" the surgeon explained These
pittings, wrinkles and freckles we re-
plaster. First the face is antiseptically
cleaned. A lotion, made from bichloride
of mercury, or carbolic acid, or glacial
acetic acid, or corrosive sublimate, is
rubbed into the skin thoroughly. The
patient is sent home to rest until the
next day The surgeon, calling next
day, finds him with face that is red
and inf1amed and blistered. He ap-
plies a second lotion, similar to the
first one, and then covers the face all
over with strips of court plaster In
five or six layers he puts this plaster
on, and all that is visible beneath is
mouth two nostrils and two eyes. The
patient must now keep in retirement
for space of time that ranges from
six to twelve days. A suppuration
during this period goes on. When the
suppuration is ended, and the old skin
is wholly destroyed, the plaster peels
off of itself, and new skin is revealed
which is pink, soft and smooth. There
are no more flaws in it than in the skin
Of a baby. ~
Sometimes, instead of court plas-
ter in this method, the surgeon uses,
after the APPLICATION of the second 10
ton, a mask of rubber. These masks
are hideous and CHASTITY, but they serve
their purpose well, and are less painful
when the patient laughs than the
plaster strips, winch any faclal move
ment causes to pull and pinch the skin.
THE removal of moles is a simple
matter A stroke of the knife accom-
plishes it. For those, however, who
dislike cold steel, there are gentler
methods = corrosive washes, caustics
and the electric needle. Birth marks
are of two kinds-rough, knobby, hairy
excrescences, or vines olored blotches
beneath the skin In the former sort
of mark the electric needle is applied
from without, and slowly but surely
under this treatment the deformity
disappears. The latter sort of birth
mark is due to the formation of a net
work of innumerable tiny veins and
capillaries beneath the cuticle. The
needle, therefore, goes beneath the
cuticle to destroy them. The method
here is painless and quick. The capil-
laries vanish, and the skin that had
been red above them becomes forth
with white.
my most popular department" the
ornamental surgeon ended, as, per-
haps, the electrical massage room In
this room a skin that is young and un-
lined is kept young and unlined, and a
head of hair that is in good condition
is kept in good condition. In this
room, in a word. the imperfections
that time would cause are warded off.