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Show HELPING OUT NATURE, AU- PARTS OF THE BODY SUP-" SUP-" - PLIED EXCEPT VITAL ORGANS. SJtow So f'""'1'1 Total Wreck Miy lie ' ftmrflteil 1T th Advanced rroneawa ' Sind Invent limn uf TJiene laya Medical li-lrnre Klope t Nothing. When one of Noah's grandchildren rt n finj,i'r in a hayc-utter or an arm in ftbuzzsaw, or liaJ an eye put out or i5 cut off, or lost his hair or tiM'lh, he as forced toj;i without the iti'iu thus 4'.dnctrd from his sum total Tor the rest , f his mortal life. It is hard to credit ilia amount if patching up that may l accomplished by tho advanced processes and inventions of these days. ' goppose that a man has lost all four Kuibs, his hair, his eyes, his nose, all his teeth and a portion of his palate, and that he has a fractured ukull and ttiber- els on his ImiK. Tho gentleman may Jso ho covered with tho pits of an early ease of smallpox and may havobeen pre-atnted pre-atnted at his birth with a large molo on tis eheeli. First, of course, ho will have his heal trepanned by some skillful surgeon, and Ulien he has had tho tubercles removed from his lungs by a specialist in pul-tnonary pul-tnonary diseases and has recovered from tho eiiiaiiM ing effects of tliese two operations opera-tions he will bo in a projier stiite to have his eyes attended to. A rabbit is selected select-ed whose optics are of a color Wominx t,i the snhject, and one of them is trans-j-'nted by means of transfereiKMj. Of eanrso he could hardly expect tojiave loth eyes successfully snp; linl in thin vay, hut suppofrinf he has gooil luck and ene prows satisfactorily, the other socket, fir the sake of beauty and symmetry, ill bo tilhsd by ono of the glass eyes Bow manufactured to snch iierfoction. C1KTTINO LIMBS, ETC. nis nest proceeding will be to call in r maker of artificial limbs ami be measured meas-ured for a full suit of arms and legs. If tho patient is fortunate onongh to have ono arm down to the wrist, he will be supplied with a hand with which he can manage to write a little and feed himself quite perfectly, liis lower limbs will convey him from place to place, not very gracefully, to bo sure, but still ad well as many merely lame legs convey their owners, mid which, sitting or resting, rest-ing, will present, perhaps, a more symmetrical sym-metrical appearance than the originals they have succeeded. The once total wreck is still bald, toothless and disfigured with poek-marks poek-marks and a mole. An artificial set of teeth, quite as good as the original arti-clo arti-clo and incapable of aclung, will bo supplied sup-plied by any good dentist, and the missing miss-ing portion of the palate also will lie furnished. Then the hair wonld naturally nat-urally be his next thought. ' lie may have hair or portions of scalp transplanted to the uncovered cranium. But this is a long and painful process, ' so wo will suppose that the subject contents con-tents himself with a wig. Fortunately in these days wigs are made which ar entirely deceptive, and so far as appearance appear-ance gix's look quite aa well as nature's own production. The writer of tbesa lines has shared a room with the wearet of such a wig for several (lays and was not aware that his companion's Hyperion locks wero not the proper growth of the head they adorned until in a buret of v confidence tho trnth was reveahll. T 110 W THE VICTIM MAY APPEAR. The beauty seeker next goes to that sv artist of recent growth, tho "dermatol- c-gist," who first destroys his mole by felec.trosis" and then gets to work on the pockmarks. These are smoothed by disintegrating process,-which loosens np the fibrous structure of the scars and smooths down the whole face by a sort cf planing method. lie is BtiU disfigured by the want of a nose, certainly a most important lack in a human countenance. This feature may now lie supplied by surgery by transplanting a fold of flesh from some living ann, which is held near the face ! to be repaired nntil a portion of the fold has grown fast in its new situation, and 1 then is wholly separated from tho arm and forms a fairly satisfactory nasal appendage. ap-pendage. Ilere the former human wreck may walk about tho streets or call upon his feminine acquaintances quite capable of appreciating their charms, for he has one available eye. Ho may smilo also, for his molars and incisors are now plentiful and of pearly W'hiteuem, and though his nose may be a trifle pudding-like pudding-like and lack Grecian symmetry of line, his delicate complexion and lnrnriant hair largely compensate for this trifling defect He will never, of course, be a satisfactory satis-factory partner in the waltz, but his dignified dig-nified repose and symmetrical limbs must niiue him an ornament to the re-ceptio re-ceptio ml conversazione. Thus while tho vital organs remain Within the trunk and the gray matter of the brain is intact a man need not despair, de-spair, and surgeons believe that we may aoon expect to see the ill furnished cranium supplied with such qualities as , it lacks, and poets, painters, inventors nnd philosophers manufactured out of the raw material of the idiot ward and the stage door contingent. New York World. |