Show W WAX AX NOSE MADE FOR MAN I. I WITH BROKEN PROBOSCIS I PHILADELPHIA June A S S. S A disfigured disfigured disfigured nose worked into the symmetrical lines ines of the perfect natural natural organ with wax as the building material is the result of a rare mare surgical I operation performed performed performed per per- formed in this city Th The The wax nose was ma made e by Dr John B. B Roberts and Dr W. W S. S Wray at the Polyclinic hospital for or a man whose nasal proboscis was crushed by a horses horse's kick two years ago Dr Roberts describes described the nose-mak- nose Ing ng operation as a a case of deformed nose treated by subcutaneous injections of or This means that melted was injected under the skirt skin of the nose Before the harde hardened hard hard- e ened ed it was molded by the fingers of I the surgeon nose makers ers so that it took the form of an almost perfect aquiline nasal appendage The doctors deny that the patients patient's wax nose will m melt lt In the hot sun or orif or orif orif if he gets too near a fire They refuse to discuss tile the details of the case for publication The operation is rare It Is said that only three Wax noses noses noses' have been manufactured manufactured manufactured man man- on mens men's faces in this coun court court- try It is easy for an actor to build a de Cyrano rac nose by adding to the proboscis he possesses but the substituting substituting substituting sub sub- of wax for the nasal bone Isa is isa a different proposition The man who got a new nose at the Polyclinic hospital is known to a number number number num num- ber of Philadelphia surgeons as John Smith the man with wit the wax nose |