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Show Grafted Nose Had No Framework Effort of Surgeons to Mnke New One Out of Fingers Failed. ASBURY PARK. N. J.. May 23. Earl Leonard returned to his homo at Bradley Beach, near this place, today, to-day, after having spent four months In a Philadelphia hospital, while the surgeons tried to make a new nose Tor him out of one of his fingers. Tho operation was not successful und ho and his family arc disappointed. Whilo there Is more to his noso now, coiMitlng whut Is left of tho linger that w:us added. U is formless and does not look like either a nose or a llnser. After the attached finger was cut from his hand the bones ln 11, which were tho most essential es-sential parts for the building up of tho nose, died and had to be removed. That left only the lleshy purt of the finger as ncee material. With no supporting framework underneath. under-neath. It collapsod. tho rosult being a protuberance longer than formorly, but tnilto shapeless. Young Leonard lost his nose, that Is, tho cartilage ln his nose, when he was ir, years old, after ho hnd been hit by a busoball. |