Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — Cure for “Strawberry Nose” Found in Simple Operation [ARTICLE]

Cure for “Strawberry Nose” Found in Simple Operation

That most distressing of facial deformities which doctors call rhinophyma, characterized by a much-swol-len and reddened tip of the nose, making this look like a huge strawberry or a piece of cauliflower that has been dipped tn beet juice, may be cured by’ a simple operation. Sir William Milligan of the Royal infirmary, Manchester, describes this in the London Lancet. t < The operation consists in cutting off all the hypertrophied tissue, while the nasal passages are kept extended with absorbent wool In order to preserve their contour. The raw surface is covered with two thin grafts of skin cut from the patient’s thigh, over Which a sheet of gold lea,f is placed and a dry dressing fastened with adhesive plaster. It should be possible to remove the dressing in five days.