| Show REMOVED BY electricity novel surgical Operations Successful removal of hole and wens A friend lias has been telling me of his own and his cifes experience in having moles and wens removed by electricity his hia wife had bad on lier her right shoulder a blemish in the form of a large mole quite half an all inch in diameter which practically made it impossible for her to wear ball or evening dresses which would reveal her otherwise otherwise shapely shoulders she accidentally heard of the electric operations and obtaining the addiss of the surgeon who performs perfo ims them she went without her hu husbands knowledge to his office and submitted to the operation it required aboutabeek about a week to heal the wounds made by the needles with which the mole was perforated in every direction then the mole which had been burned to a dry black crisp fell off leaving the shoulder perfectly white and with only oni 7 the slightest it indication to show where the discoloration had been A now new skin formed oi over er it and there is hardly a noticeable blemish there now success inspired her to insist on her husbands undergoing the same operation on a more delicate part of his person namely his nose ile iio alius tells his story 1 I had on my nose at birth so I 1 was told a went wen which grew with my years until I 1 became a man and for many years it greatly disfigured my countenance it was about the size of a pea and was on my left nostril it changed color from time to time and would grow to be ba a frightful sanguinary red whenever I 1 indulged myself with wines a and nd liquors of any sort I 1 came to regard it at times as a gin blossom and an irreverent reporter in describing me once suggested that this object had bad evidently been one of long and patient and costly culture I 1 went on my cifes urgent entreaty to lier her surgeon and asked him if it could bo removed lie ile looked at it and suggested that it might be if I 1 would not look upon the wine when it was red but I 1 told liim him I 1 was born so he examined further and at once proceeded to oper rate upon it he bathed my nose first of all in cocaine it grow cold at first then became perfectly numb as though asleep from lack hick of circulation of the blood it felt as if paralyzed lie ho then applied an electric needle to the wen well sticking it through and through as near the roots as possible there was no pain though half an hour was consumed in the operation whenever lie he increased the current of electricity I 1 saw billions of stars and sparks seemed scorned to flash front from my eyes and the eyeballs seemed to crac crack k with each spark that apparently flew fiew from them when the operation was completed the won wen was black no do longer I 1 led ed and more unsightly than ever lie ile put flesh colored court plaster over it and kept it there for about a week then in washing it off the mass of blackened flesh fell away A new skin formed and you can barely see a small scar where the unsightly object once was Nasli nashville ville american |
