Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — CHANGE TOUR FACE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHANGE TOUR FACE.

DERMATOLOGISTS HAVE THE MEANS AT COMMAND. Tliey Can Alter a “Puj” That Tilt* Skyward iato a Graceful Aquiline—The Hast fa Be Taken Out of I tlfean N*#e «n Short Order. Method 01 Operating. For a reason that has never been fu’.ly explained pug noses are not popular, even where they have been known to be becoming to cei-tain types of pretty faces. It will be glad news to possessors of the retrousse pattern of nose, therefore, to hear that persons who have pug noses and don’t like them can part with them, and ad-pt those of more approved pattern in a week’s time. A still more sensational surgial fact is that those who have big mouths can have them reduced in size by a similar feat of surgical magic, or can have them made bigger if they think their meuths are too small. Large mouths are if any-

thing, even more unpopular than “turnup’' noses, despite the fact that phrenololgists assert that, like big noses, big mouths are indicative of the possession of a large heart and an amiable disposition. A man with a mouth of normal size, adorned with a mustache of graceful outline, made the announcement that the doctor’s lancet could now accomplish this astonishing sort of surgical trickery as nonchalantly as he might have said that a cook could peel a potato or slice a tomato. He sat in a parlor on West Forty-second street, says the Xew York Sun, and spread before him were photographs from life which proved the truth of the statements that he afterward male. He was Dr. John H. Woodbury, a surgeon who has devoted several years to the delicate job of transforming the countenances of patients who objected to the noses, months, and ears that nature had given to them. “It is the easiest and in one sense the simplest thing in the world to change : your face if you want," he said quietly, “and the feat is being accomplished

bow every day oa tae faces of persons who think that another style of countenance would become them better than the one with which they were born. Experience proves that their noses give 1 folks more bother than their ears or i their months. They want pugs or Boman noses or crooked noses made straight, and straightening them up for these patients has developed into a genuine surgical art. The transformation oif’a' arbmail's pu{; nose, or a retrousse nose, as we call it nowadays, into an aquiline nasal organ that will be an ornament to her face is the simplest of the feats of dermatology, and is the operation which is performed most frequently.’ “How do you get rid of the pug?" said the visitor eagerly. V “ cutting away t}»e cartilage of the septum," or thertisstp wall that separates *t he flostrfts. Anybody who thinks for a moment of what makes a pug nose point skyward will recognize how rational the remedy Is, so to speak. A small V-shaped section is cut out of the cartilage between the end of the nose

and the point of Juncture witu tie upper Up, and the edges of the cut are then sewed together with thin thread. Cocaine is sprayed on the nose to make the operation painless. When the cartilage has been removed and the edges of the wound drawn together, the operation, as you can readily understand, draws the point of the nose downward to a graceful. angle. This angle oan be regulated at will by carefully judging the amount of cartilaginous tissue to be cut away. The drawing down of the point of the nose naturally spreads the nostfils, which would be as unsightly, perhaps, as the elevation of the end of the nose. This spreading is prevented by the'use of a metallic clasp, which is called a ‘nose vise.’ It consists of two thin, flat .semicircular bars of metal, about two inches in length and about a quarter of an inch in width. They fasten together in parallel surfaces with a screw at either end. This little nosevise f js slid down over the end of the nose, with the curved edge of the parallel bars turned outward, and the screws are lightened until the metal presses the nostrils against the septum tight enough to keep them from spreading. The vise is put on the nose at night and kept on for several hours, being held in place by a silk bandage, which passes over the ears and ties behind the head. It Is possible to go to

a—— 11 ” 11 '■ —■ —————— - ■■ ■ ■■■ ■■■ «lmp with your nose literally in a vise. The wound made by the operation heals In three or four days, the nose-vise is behold the objectionable ftsee has become handsome. A few

weeks later all mark of ft* magic transformation will have disappeared. The rapidity with which the change can be made is one of the . marvels that illustrate the immense stride that has

been made in the science of dermatology. " “But how about a Roman nose? How do you get rid of the hump?” “Easier,” replied the surgeon; “easier. If anything, than we banish the pug feature. The flesh in the nose is cut on either side of the hump, a hook is inserted in the flesh, and it is held away from the bone by an assisiant. Itdoesn’t seem pleasant to th nk of having a hook stuck in your nose, but that is mere sentiment, for it doesn’t hurt when cocaine has been spread on the flesh. While the skin is raised a steel bun-, which is a small drill run by an electric motor, is pressed against the hump of the bone, and the hump is quickly ground away. All that then remains to do is to take the hook out of the skin of the nose, trim the edges where they have been tut, sew them together, bandage up the nose, and wait for it to heal. When it does, the removal of the ban lage reveals a nose that hasn’t the slightest suggestion of the noMe old Roman hump to iL “Crooked noses that will land men either in the roadway or up against the side of a house if they were to follow their noses, and noses that have been smashed, can be quite as readily straightened and mended. “All that is necessary to straighten a

crooked nose is to insert a pair of nasal forceps over the septum cartilage and push it in the direction opposite to its original turn, either to the right or left, pushing it hard enough to splinter the cartilage at the point where it began to deviate from the medial line. When it is splintered, a metal plug is inserted in the nostrils, and the splintered cartilage is allowed to heal, which it does quickly. The nasal plug used is a piece of metal with a needle point. This needle i 3 thrust upward through the septum and holds the cartilage straight on the medial line until the nose has healed.” “Did you really mean it when you said a few minutes ago that a doctor can make a woman's mouth smaller?" the visitor inquired, fn a dubious tone. “Mean it!" retorted the surgeon, “of course' I do. It is another of those feats that are easy enough when you know how. It has been tried with success, The method is to cut the flesh of the mouth both outside and inside along the edge of the vermilion border of the lip at the corners of the mouth.' A small section of this vermilion flesh is

removed by dissection, and the edges of the lips are then drawn together at the corners and sewed together and allowed to heal as in other operations. The healing process occupies less than a week sometimes. But, while the operation is accomplished by simple means, its success as to appearance depends upon the skill of the surgeon. “Dermatology has, furthermore, supplied quite recently the means of successfully remedying deformity of the ear. Ears that project from the head In an unsightly way, or which have low hanging lobes that mar the owner’s personal looks, are readily restored to a normal appearance. The uncouth projection of the ear from the head is corrected by cutting the flesh of the ear at the point where it joins the head, and then making an elliptical dissection and removing a section of the cartilage near the head. The severed edges of the ear about the wound are drawn together and sewed. The surplus cartilage that made the ear project from the head having been removed, the ear,

when it heals, is no longer unsightly, and rests close to the head. A V-shaped dissection of the outer edge of the ear and the removal of a small section of the cartilage will similarly remedy the defect of the misshaped lobe.

A NOBLE ROMAN TRANSFORMED.

THE PUG REMODELED.

HOW A ROMAN NOSE IS ALTERED.

REFORMING A PUG NOSE.

THE MACHINN.

THE WAY TO MAKE A MOUTH SMALLER.

METHOD OF ENLARGING THE MOUTH.