Doyle
successfully removed an ounce Minie ball from the brain after a
fifteen years' lodgment.
Pipe-stems, wires, shot, and other foreign bodies, are from time
to time recorded as remaining in the brain for some time. Wharton
has compiled elaborate statistics on this subject, commenting on
316 cases in which foreign bodies were lodged in the brain, and
furnishing all the necessary information to persons interested in
this subject.
Injuries of the nose, with marked deformity, are in a measure
combated by devices invented for restoring the missing portions
of the injured member. Taliacotius, the distinguished Italian
surgeon of the sixteenth century, devised an operation which now
bears his name, and consists in fashioning a nose from the fleshy
tissues of the arm. The arm is approximated to the head and held
in this position by an apparatus or system of bandages for about
ten days, at which time it is supposed that it can be severed,
and further trimming and paring of the nose is then practiced. A
column is subsequently made from the upper lip. In the olden days
there was a timorous legend representing Taliacotius making noses
for his patients from the gluteal regions of other persons, which
statement, needless to say, is not founded on fact.
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