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 *tience on the one part, and skill on the other, had won the battle. This was more than twenty years ago, and since then the surgeons who have given attention to the subject have had many similar successes.

Speaking of eye-glasses, we may remark that when long used they have another unsightly effect. At the points where they press on the sides of the nose not unfrequently the skin thickens, and forms a callus or warty excrescence. This should be avoided by altering the spot where they are worn, or by having them padded.

A singular and repulsive deformity is occasionally produced by the growth of small pendent tumors, called polypi, inside the nostrils. They are not visible externally, but can be seen within on close examination. They interfere with the voice, rendering it hoarse and nasal; the sufferer cannot breathe freely through the nostrils, and when large they change the face in a manner at once sad and ludicrous, giving it an expression like that of a frog. These tumors used formerly to be seized and torn out by means of a forceps, a painful, bloody, and risky operation. Lately, however, an admirable apparatus has been invented, by which they are surrounded with a wire, and removed instantly and painlessly by a charge of galvano-electricity along the wire.

Blows, falls, and similar injuries sometimes mar the contour of the nose in a shocking manner. They