MAKING A NEW NOSE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 9 January 1912, Page 6

MAKING A NEW NOSE.

Some extraordinary instances of modern surgical skill are recorded in an article in the “Nursing Times.” ; “Quite recently,” the writes states, “a German surgeon iiad a patient whose knee was immovably fixed and useless; lie removed the diseased bones forming the joint, and replaced them by the knee joint removed from a’leg which had just been amputated from another patient who had met with a severe accident. The transplanted bones, both above and below, united firmly with the honor; of the patient, the strange knee joint moved well, and answered ail the ordinary purposes. A still more wonderful operation lias recently been performed in America in order to provide a patient with a new nose. A small piece of bone was taken from the bone of a log which bad just been amputated, the bone was then carved into the semblance of a nose, with nostrils complete, and was placed under the non-bairy _ part of the skin of the arm of the patient. The bone lived, became attached to the skin, which was stretched out over its surface, and after a few mouths, the bone and its attached covering of skin were removed from the arm in one piece. This was then transplanted to the face, stitched in position, and, after a little while, became a good, firm, bony nose, covered with'smooth healthy skin.”