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Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 382, 14 January 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)

The surgeons have succeeded in accomplishing many remarkable rhinoplastic operations ; but in the Berliner Kliuisehe Wochenschrift, Dr. Joseph describes a rhinoplastic operation performed by him, not, as is usually the case, for the purpose of restoring a missing or mutilated nose, but in order to reduce the proportions of a preternaturally developed nose. A country gentleman possessed an olfactory organ of dimensions £0 enormous n. 3 to arouse the hilarity of his neighbours, and he was thereby so much mortified that he became almost melancholy, and appealed to Dr. Joseph to deliver him from his affliction. The superfluous skin and cartilages were accordingly removed by four incisions, which formed two angles with the vertex in the median lino of the nose; then the unduly prominent nasal bones were reduced with the chisel, and fin vlly the bridge of the nose was shortened by excising a wedgeshaped portion of bone. Sutures were then applied, the wound healed by first iuteution, and the patient is now in high spirits, a comparison of photographs affording ample evidence of the improvement which has been brought about in his appearance. A similar case was under the care of Professor Robert Weir, of New York, and is described in the New York Medical Journal, 1392, p. 452 ; but, as a rule, it is not the reduction of a nose, but a reparation of that onjau, damaged or delicient, which is required.