FALSE NOSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 270, 13 November 1937, Page 17

FALSE NOSES.

RUBBERY MATERIAL.

POCKET LABORATORY.

MEDICAL EXHIBITION. \

(Specinl.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, October 21

If you have cut off your nose—to spite your face, don't worry; you can have it replaced by one of entirely new design. At the London Medical Exhibition at the New Horticultural Hall, they showed a nice line in fashionable noses. And ears. And chins.

They are made of a flesh-coloured, flexible, rubbery sort of material (so you can't have your nose put out of joint) which can be affixed in place of the missing part.

Doctors looking for the latest gadgets crowded the exhibition. They found plenty.

The really up-to-date doctor could have so many "portable" pieces of apparatus that he would need a pantechnicon instead of his little black bag. One, really portable, is a pocket laboratory, just eight inches by four, which would enable him to carry out 2500 tests for 25 different diseases.

A blood test for diabetes, for instance, which would otherwise mean taking a sample and sending it to a laboratory, I which would charge a guinea and report next day, can be carried out in less than half a minute. It costs a farthing. Alongside is the portable X-ray, which has not yet reached pocket-size, but which can be carried in three suitcases, assembled at the bedside, plugged into the ordinary light circuit and give an X-ray examination as thoroughly as an elaborate hospital equipment. Laughing-gas can be self-administered without risk, or loss of consciousness, but with complete relief of pain. Another piece of modern apparatus which it is claimed will allow a fracture patient to leave hospital within a fortnight instead of six weeks or two months, is a kind of human lathe which mends fractures and leaves the limb supple. The mended limb is encased in plaster of paris and aluminium splints.

What with free samples of medicine a good time was had t>y all.