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Show NOSES TO ORDER. Results of years of research and experiment in plastic surgery were described by Dr. Oscar V. Batson of Philadelphia recently in an address before a group of specialists in the art of making new faces. He related his success in furnishing furnish-ing artificial noses and ears without the employment of skin grafting op- , erations which many patients are un-I un-I able or unwilling to undergo. He s'mply makes the new members out of a composition of flesh-colored gelatin and glycerine and attaches j them to the patient's face with the aid of spirit gum. ! By this method a plaster cast of the face Is made and sent to him, ac- 'companied by photographs, and from these he constructs a permanent mold t into which the compos'tion is poured ' and allowed to harden. Then the artificial ar-tificial member is stuck in its place by means of the gum. If the new member is damaged in any way later, it is removed and another one is : poured to take its place. 1 Dr. Batson declared that two of his early pat'ents, a man and woman, had worn the artificial noses he made for them with entire satisfaction for ' several years, although they had to be renewed occasionally. |