Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1890 — The Loss of the Nose. [ARTICLE]

The Loss of the Nose.

The presence of mind shown by an Ohio physician saved a man a nose. That useful member was severed by a full upon a sharp corner, and the attendant M. D., by promptly placing the sundered piece where it belonged, secured a healing “by first intention, ” and the subsequent restoration of the organ, plus an ugly scar. Less successful was the replacing of a nose by a young mau of this city many years ago. While engaged in playfully “fencing” with a companion, a reckless pass cleanly cut off the young fellow’s nose. He had not studied physiology for nothing, and acting upon this knowledge, grabbed the severed organ and clapped it on the bleeding surface it had just quitted. Then his nose was bound firmly on and nature was left to take her course. She did this admirably. When the bhndages were removed the two p irts were found to be grown together beautifully. Nothing could be nicer, except that the unfortunate young man had put his nose on upside down! The nostrils stood as open to heaven as the flues at the apex of a chimnev. The memories that come down through a vista of thirty years,since this sad affair took place, are a tr.fle m sty and unreliable as to the subsequent career of the man with the inverted nose. He is believed to be dead. During his lite, however, he was known to declare that, for purposes of snuff-taking, he bad the very finest nose iu the world, but that to be caught in a heavy shower without an umbrella. was tantamount to drowning. Those that are suddenly deprived of a nose should be careful to replace it with the perforations down. Human life is made up of trifles, and some of these have power to engender discomfort, when it comes to an upside down nose.— Pittsburg. Bulletin.