TO GRAFT A NOSE ON HIM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3424, 16 January 1912, Page 2

TO GRAFT A NOSE ON HIM.

A REMARKABLE OPERATION. The surgeons of the Newark City Hospital are preparing William Brav, 21 years of age, of 63 South Thirteenth street, Newark for an unusual operation, which will be performed shortly. The operation will be an attempt to graft a nose on Bray, who was born without one. Tire surgeons hope to graft the little finger of Bray’s left hand, to ills face. Mr Bray has been under treatment for some time by Dr. Carlyle E. Sutphen. of 181 Roseyilleavenue. The physician decided to finish the operation on Mr Bray at the- hospital. and the patient was sent there on September 13. The operation, as far as the surgeons have planned it, contemplates grafting the tip of the finger to the forehead, the knuckle to appear as the end of the nose. The hamd will first be bandaged to the face, with the finger still sustaining circulation from the arteries of the hand. After the flesh of the finger and flesh of the nasal base have sufficiently welded' the surgeons will amputate the finger at the second joint. 'Pile finger during the two weeks’ grafting period will be sewed to the face. Bray will breathe through the nostril opening and not through the finger, however, the knuckle—the top of the “near-nose” —projecting just over the nostril openings.