LOST NOSE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 31, 31 October 1919, Page 7

LOST NOSE

FOUND AND PUT 0N.. ; /.' A man whose, nose was cut off in an. accident told at Windsor ft remarkable story of how it was found and put on again. The man, William Robertson, employed as a stable lad by Mr. J. ijhodes, of Lambourn, was getting a horse ready for Windsor racecourse on August 15, "As I walked through the doorway," he said, "the skylight fell on me and cut my nose clean off. 1 was taken to King Edward VIT Hospital, Windsor, without my noso. Tho arteries were tied up and the. surgeon asked: 'Where is the nose?' The doctor's son evcled lo the stables, and my nosa >vas found in tho box among the straw. It was brought back to the hospital and the nose was put on again. My nose was off for about three-quarters of au hour to an hour."

Pointine to his nose, he added smilingly, "It is on now, as you see, an' 1 everything is going on satisfactorily. I am to ho discharged to-day. I cannot speak too highly of the surgeon, the nurses, ami (lie hospital."

•Sir Edward Shinlev vice-chairman of Kins: Edward VII Hospital Committee at -Windsor, interviewed liy a "Daily Mail" representative, said: "The nose was washed in salt and water and then sewn on by ono o::' the honorary surgeons. After considerable trouble on the Dart of l.lie sister and nurses—it needed almost hourly dressing with warm salt solution—tho "nose recovered its vitality, obtained a new blood supply, and healed on. There is scarcely any deformity. In fact, it looks as good as ever. The remarkable lining abo.;(: il is that though tho nose was off an hour it lived. I have never known of a similar case."