Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — SCIENTIFIC SURGERY. [ARTICLE]

SCIENTIFIC SURGERY.

A Nose Made Out of Two Finger Joints. [New York special.] Prof. Sabine, ot the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the leading rhinoplastic or skin-grafting surgeon of the world, has dismissed as cured from Bellevue Hospital Thomas Colt, a scrofulous patient. Three months ago the disease ate away most of Colt’s nose, completely destroying the bone and leaving only portions of the nostrils. Dr. Sabine cut away the diseased portions and grafted upon the face the middle finger of the patient’s left hand, making a nose. The operation was successful, the patient gaining a nose and losing two joints of one finger. Medical men pronounce Dr. Sabine’s feat the most wonderful in the records of rhinoplastic surgery.