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 adjacent bone, which misfortune has been known to occur with very unpleasant results. The ether-spray will render the operation altogether painless, though it is quite bearable without it.

DEFECTS IN THE FORM AND COLOR OF THE NOSE.

A person with an ugly nose has much to bear. They must either suffer in silence, or, like Cyrano de Bergerac, whose story we have told, fight many a battle in its defence. We modestly come as consolers to all such. Their cases are not desperate, at any rate not always so.

Some of them have noses leaning more to one side than the other, not placed in the median line of the face. This, to a slight degree, is very common and often hardly noticed, except as it mars the "tout ensemble" of the face. In others, again, it is intolerable. Mr. Heather Bigg, of London, who has quite a reputation for treating disfigurements, tells of a young barrister whose nose was so much on one side of his face that it threatened to spoil his prospects at the bar. He applied for relief to Mr. Bigg, who contrived an instrument which forced it by a spring to its proper place. This was worn constantly at night, and occasionally during the day. The success was complete. Similar mechanical appliances should be worn by every one who would rid themselves of this disagreeable obliquity. They must be made and adjusted very