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Show A XEVT HAN WHILE 0D ITAlr ALL PARTS OF T11F ItUMA COUT SCI PLIED EXCEPT rTTAt, ORGANS. Wlieu ono of Xoali'a grandchildren grandchil-dren lost a finger lu a hay-cutter or an arm in a buzz-saw, or had nurye IHitout oralegcut off, or lost Ills hair or ttttu, he was forced to go without the item thus deducted from liU sum total fur the rest of his mortal life It Is hard to credit the amount of patching up that may now be ncuumpIisIieU by the atl-aucvd atl-aucvd progress an J inventions of thrMJ times. Sur poo that a tuau has lest all four limbs, his hair, lilseyr?, liii nose, all hi teeth and a portion of his palate; lie has a fractured t-kull and tubercles on bis lunr. Tlie gentlrman may alrt b-civcred with tbe pits of nn early caw of nuall-pox, nuall-pox, and may havu bern presented at lili birth llli a lare mule .ou lib cheek. First, of courc, he will hive his head trepanned by soma toilful surgeon, and when he has had the tubercles removed from his lungs by a sjKKjilut lit pulmonary ill-eases ill-eases nuJ has recovered from the exhausting effects of thesu tno oiieratlons he will be in a proper state to have his ey es attended to. A rabbit Is selected whou optlo are of a color becoming to the fulject,anj one of them is traus planted by means of transferoute. ()t cour-o he could hardly expect to hae both eyes successfully supplied sup-plied in this way, but supposing he lias good luck and one grows satis factorily, the other socket, for the take of be-iulyanl (ymmetry, will be filled by out. of the pla.vs (.yes now manufactured to audi iierfec tion His next proceeding will bo tn call in a maker ufmunciai liuii anJ be metnured for a full suit ut arms and leg". If tbe patient is fortunate enough fn.tivp "i" "in iin ini 'i I fi he will be supplied with a hanu with which he call manage to write a little and feed himself quite par fectly. His lower limbs will con vey him from place to place, not very gracefully, to be sure, but still as well as mauy merely lame lees convey their owuers aud which, silting or res'in, will present, per haps, a more vymmetrical a pear ance than the originals they have aucceeded. The once total wreck is still bald, toothless and disfigured with p-ck etmarks and a mole. An artificial oet of teeth, quite aa good as the original artlue and incapablo of aching, will be supplied by any good lit-nti", aud tbo inisdu,; por-tlou por-tlou of tbe palate alsa will be furnished. furn-ished. The 1 the hair would naturally be his next thought. He may have hair or portions of scalp transplanted to tbe uncovered cranium But this is a long and painful process, so we will supjiose that tbe sulj-ct contents hltnseli with a wig Fortunately, In these days wigs are made which are en tlrely deceptive and, so far as op puaram gue, loA qulto as well as nature's owu production. The writer of tlno lines has shared a room with Uie wearer of such a wi(, for several days aud was uot aware that bis companion's hyperion locks were not the proper growth of the head they aJorned until In a burst of confidence U10 truth was revealed. re-vealed. The beauty-ceeker, next goes to that artist of recent growth, the 1'dennatolagist," who first destroys his mole by "e!ectroab"ud then gets to wort upon the pockmarks rhene are smoothed by a dlsinte grating praces', which loosens up the fibrous structure of the scars anJ smooths down the whole face by a sort of planing method. He is stlirdisflgured by the want of a nose, certainly a mint important lack la a h-iman count-ance. count-ance. This filature may now be supplied by surgery by transplant lngafoldof fltufrom some living arm, which is held near the face to be repaired until a portion of the fold has grown fast in Its new situation, situa-tion, and then 1 wholly separate 1 from thearnrp and forms a faith satisfactory nasal apn-ndsge. Here tbe former human wreck may walk about tae streets or call upon his feminine acquaintance, quite capable of appreciating their charms, for he has one available eye. He may smile also, for his molars and Incisors, are now plentiful plenti-ful and of pearly whiteness, and though bis nose may be a trifle pudaing-Uke and lack Grecian symmetry sym-metry of line, his dejeato complexion complex-ion ami JuxUrfin1 h1' !ry lv "n-pecnle "n-pecnle for this trifle defect. He wfil never, of course i a satisfactory satis-factory partner in the valtx, but his dignified repose and symmetrical limbs must make btm an ornament to tbe reception and conversazione. Thus while the vital organ remain re-main within the trunk and the gray matter of the-bralqls iotatt a man need not despair, and surgoons believe be-lieve that we may soon expect to see the ill furnished cranium tup-plied tup-plied with such qualities as it lacks, and poets, painters, InvcutonTand philosophers manufactured out of tbo raw material of the idiot ward and the stage door contingent Jea |