98 THE ADHESIVE UNION. 



up. The result was, that they united, and the spur con- 

 tinued to grow on the comb. full as well as it had done in 

 its natural position. The same effect took place, when 

 he removed a tooth from a man, and engrafted it on a 

 cock's comb. Fingers, after having been completely 

 chopped off, have been bound to the stumps and be- 

 come perfectly united to them. In cases of wounds 

 where there is a deficiency of substance, surgeons have 

 lately adopted the practice of supplying the deficiency 

 by strips of flesh removed from other parts of the body. 

 In the East Indies where it is the practice of the chiefs 

 to cut off the noses of their prisoners, the operation is 

 frequently practised of making a new nose, out of a 

 strip of flesh that is cut from the forehead, but still ad- 

 hering by one extremity, and made to unite with the 

 stump of the absent member. 



Emily. I think I have heard of this operation be- 

 fore, but always supposed it was merely an idle tale. 

 But pray Dr. B. what kind of a figure does the new 

 nasal member make in the man's countenance ? 



Dr. B. It is said that some very handsome noses 

 have been made in this way. You must admit that there 

 is certainly one advantage gained by having a nose thus 

 made to order ; you can consult your own taste about 

 its shape as you would the cut of your coat, and have it 

 Grecian, or Roman, or in any other style, according to 

 the fashion which happens to be in vogue, or as it har- 

 monizes with the other features. This closes the histo- 

 ry of the Circulation. In our next conversation we shall 

 examine the organs and functions of respiration. 



