his arm of sufficient skin to form a new nose on the nobleman's 

 face. The surgical operation succeeded admirably, a new nose 

 of creditable appearance soon formed and the Colonel was 

 delighted ; the porter also recovered and returned to his home 

 in Italy. From time to time the Colonel's nose became very 

 red and swollen, giving him the appearance of a drunkard; 

 this disfigurement passed away and a few -months later the 

 nose would again assume the tell-tale state in spite of the 

 owner's abstemious habits. By exchanging letters with 

 Tagliacozzi the nobleman found that these unfortunate attacks 

 coincided with periodical drunken fits of the porter. Finally, 

 after enduring this inconvenience about six years the worst 

 came to pass ; the Viennese officer was attending a court ball 

 when to his alarm the tip of his nose grew colder and colder 

 and very soon dropped off in a shriveled condition. On 

 making diligent inquiry he ascertained that the porter had 

 died that very evening at Bologna.J 



Tycho Brahe, who had listened with great interest to 

 this narrative, smiled broadly as the speaker concluded and 

 looked as if he thought his silver nose was preferable to a 

 Tagliacotian. Dr. Guarinonius then added that Tagliacozzi 

 always claimed that his operation produced a nose having a 

 more acute sense of smell than the natural one; and that 

 during his recent travels in Italy he had seen at Bologna the 

 statue erected by the citizens to Tagliacozzi, in which he was 

 represented holding a human nose in his hand. 



The meetings of the Rudolphine Academy of Medicine 

 were not always so lively as the one just described, at some 

 there was less diversity of topics and prosy speakers con- 

 sumed the time without communicating any novelty. Several 

 months later an extraordinary meeting was convened in honor 

 of the renowned physician Andreas Libau, of Coburg, who 

 was passing through Prague on his way to Vienna, and had 



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