New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-16
NEW NOSES FOR TWO MEN
4 LIP IS ALSO GRATED.
The Agony T5cice DriUes One
Patient Insane.

After three months suffering John J.. Kabia.
whose middle finger Of his left hand was grated
TO his face at the Post Graduate Hospital. has
now almost normal nose. About three months
ago he entered the hospital to have the operation
performed. The hngernail was first removed and
then the finger slit from tip to base. the flaps OF
flesh Their being spread apart and sewed to his
face in the proper position Then his hand was
bound to his head in specially constructed iron
brace that held the upper portion Of his body I'M
movable. For weeks he had to lie IN this position
in agony waiting for the flesh grow together
and the circulation OF the blood to be established
The finger knit TO the face. and then the
finger cut away from the hand. leaving Kabia
free to move about as he liked The finger now
has only to be modelled into shape by plastic
surgery to be scarcely distinguishable from an
ordinary nasal organ.
At the same time that Rabia was getting a nose
at the Post Graduate Hospital Oscar Leonard
was undergoing the same operation in tire Uni
versity Hospital IN Philadelphia. In addition to
grating a nose TO his face. the surgeons had to
furnish him upper lip he having been born with
neither lip This made his face
pulsive that he had worn veil While under
going the operation supply these deficiencies
Leonard twice lost his mind through the agony
he enduring. and undid the work OF the
geons by wrenching the half knitted finger from
the face The surgeons persevered. and to-day
Leonard has a fact which while not handsome Is
serviceabIe and not at all unusual In appearance
Leonard is a young man with wealthy parelts
and. while strong. surgeons say pos
sessed Of unusual pluck and strength OF mind He
entered the hospital three months ago and was
placed under the OF DR.. Charles Frazier IL
decided that IL would be best first to graft on
upper lip. To do this the teeth were extracted
and then by sewing and grating skin in Mace
within a month the lip had been formed The rapid
healing of the lip made the surgeons sanguine that
the nose grating would be success AS I,eona ~
was lefthanded the middle finger of his right hand
was sewn his face. and he was STRAINED ITO
the rigid iron frame to keep the finger in place
The pain and the fingers that were always before
his eyes drove him insane In week and fn ors
conclusive moment ne ripped the half Lnttted
finger from his face act that was airnost
fatal I'm its consequences After he had freed mis-
hand he became sane again. and a week Later the
finger again sewed in place. -Four davs iatsr
he again went insane from the agony he was en-
during. and had half torn his finger away oSair
but did not entirely destroy the growth Of the
flesh. Leonard grew weak rapidly and 70 save
his life the surgeons had to amputate the finger
as soon circulation had become established a
week before they had intended TO do m AS soon
as his arm was freed. Leonard recovered with
great rapldlty. and In few days will leave the
hospital 70 spend several months In the country
resain his strength, before undergoing the rennod-