FALSE NOSES

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4348, 18 January 1938, Page 2

FALSE NOSES

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 flesh-coloured, flexible, rubbery sort o. 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 Sin by 4in, which would enable him to carry out 2,500 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, which would charge a guinea and report next day, can be carried out in 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 suit cases, 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 pans and aluminium splints. What with free samples of medicine a good time was had by all.