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two holes for a nofe. The Crim Tartars break the nofes 
cf their children while young, as thinking it a great piece 
of folly to have their nofes Hand before their eyes. In 
moft other countries, China excepted, great nofes are an 
honour. 
The art of forming “ fupplemental nofes,” which has 
lately been revived in Europe, mult be regarded as an ob- 
jeft of confiderable intereff in the practice of furgery. 
The abfence, of the intellectual character of the human 
countenance which accompanies the want of that feature ; 
and, what is of greater confequence, the uncleanlinefs at¬ 
tending it, and the difagreeable ideas refpefting its origin 
that are affociated with its appearance, render the removal 
of that deformity a circumftance of much importance to 
perfons obliged to communicate with civil fociety. Mr. 
Carpue, who brought this practice into the repute it has 
acquired in England, has adopted the Indian method; but 
that employed by Tagliacozzi, with l'ome modifications, 
is preferred by profeffor Graefe, of Berlin, after trials of 
both of them in feveral inftances. Profeffor Graefe drft 
had recourle to this praftice in the year 1811, when he 
employed the Indian mode ; again in 1816, according to 
the Italian ; in 1817, after the Indian ; and again in the 
fame year, in the manner we have mentioned as that pre¬ 
ferred by him, and which heisdifpofed to term the German 
method. The lad inltance determined his choice; and, 
making fome allowance for warmth of expreffion in de¬ 
ferring a favourite meafure, it would thence appear that 
the latter method is entitled to preference. The patient 
was a female, twenty-four years of age, who had the car¬ 
tilaginous portion of the nofe dedroyed by herpes. “ The 
operation,” he obferves, “ fucceeded fo completely in 
every refpeft, that no perfon could obferve the lealt de¬ 
formity; the new parts perfectly affimilating to the ge¬ 
neral agreeable appearance of the young lady’s counte¬ 
nance.” Such a defeription would be by no means ap¬ 
propriate to the refults of the operation in the alliances 
in which it has been performed in England. Other ad¬ 
vantages, the author obferves, attend this method; fince 
th.e cicatrix on the forehead, and danger of ill confe- 
quences from expofure of the frontal bone, are thus 
avoided. London Med. and P/tyJ'. Journal, Jan. 1819. See 
the article Surgery. 
To lead by the Nose. To drag by force ; as a bear by 
his ring; to lead blindly.— In fuits which a man doth not 
underhand, it is good to refer them to fome friend; but 
let him chufe well his referendaries, elfe he may be led by 
the nofe. Bacon. —This is the method of all popular (hams, 
when the multitude are to be led by the nofe into a fool’s 
paradife. L' Ejl range. 
Though authority be a (tubborn bear, 
Yet he is oft led by the nofe with gold. Shahefpeare. 
That fome occult defign doth lie 
In bloody cynarftomachy, 
Is plain enough to him that knows 
How faints lead brothers by the nofe. Hudibras. 
To thrift one's Nose into the affairs of others. To be 
meddling with other people’s matters; to be a bufy-body. 
To put one's Nose out of joint. To put one out in the 
affections of another. Commonly ufed of children. 
To NOSE, v. o. To feent; to fmell.— Nofe him as you 
go up the ftairs. Shahefpeare's Hamlet. — To face; to op- 
pofe. — Suffering them to nofe and impudentize the doc¬ 
tors and mailers of the old ftamp. Wood's Ann. 
To NOSE, v. n. To look big; to bluffer; 
Adulterous Antony 
Gives his potent regiment to a trull 
That nofes it againlt us. Shakefpeare. 
NO'SITBAN D, f. That part of the head-ftall of a bridle 
that comes over a horfe’s nbfe, 
NO SE-BLEED, J. in botany. See Aciullea. 
NOS 
NOSE PE'AK, a mountain on the ealt coaft of the 
illand of Paraguay. Eat. 8. 56. N. Ion. 118. 25. E. 
NOSE POI'NT, a cape on the ealt coaft of the bland 
of Paraguay. Lat. 8.59.N. Ion. 118. 42. E. 
NO'SED, adj. Having a nofe; as, long-no/etf, flat-nofed. 
—Having fagacity.—There’s no knavery but is nos'd like 
a dog, and can fmell out a dog’s meaning. Middleton’s 
Witch. 
NO'SEGAY, f. A pofy; a bunch of flowers.—She hath 
four-and-tvvejity nojegays for the (hearers. Shahefpeare. 
Ariel fought 
The clofe recedes of the virgin’s thought 5 
As, on the nofegay in her bread reclin’d. 
He watch’d the ideas riling in her mind. Pope. 
NO'SELESS, adj. Wanting a nofe; deprived of the 
nofe : 
Mangled myrmidons, 
Nofelefs and handlefs, hackt and chipt, come to him. 
Shakefpeare. 
NO'SETHRILL. See Nostril. 
NOS'IMA, a fmall bland of Japan, in the (traits be¬ 
tween Niphon and Xicoco. 
NOSTMA, a town of Japan, in the idand of Ximo: 
twenty miles north-north-well of Tailero. 
NO'SING, f. The aft of taking by the nofe ; that which 
is put on at the end of any thing refembling a nofe! 
NO'SLE. See Nozle. 
NOSOCO'MIUM, f. [from the Gr. noao;, adifeafe, and 
topics, to cure.] An infirmary; an hofpital. 
NOSOL'OGY, J. [from the Gr. 1<01705, difeafe, and Xoycc, 
dbcourfe.] A treatife or doftrine of difeafes ; in which 
fenfe it might be conlidered as fynonymous with .pathology. 
The term nofology, however, has been appropriated exclu- 
dvely to “a methodical arrangement of difeafes,” after 
the manner of the cladification adopted by natural his¬ 
torians. 
The advantages refulting from an arrangement of this 
kind, both to the learner and to the praftitioner of medi¬ 
cine, have been long acknowledged by able and learned 
phydeians. Baglivi, Sydenham, Boerhaave, Gaubius, and 
others, expreffed their dedre to fee fuch a work accom- 
plilhed, from a ccyiviftion, that, like the objects of natural 
liiltory, difeafes would be more eafily and certainly dilcri- 
minated, by being arranged under genera and fpecies, 
with charafteridic definitions. In truth, the analogy, in 
the method of invedigation, in both cafes, is very clofe; 
(or it confdts in Itudyingand comparing the external cha- 
radters, and in feparating thofe which are poffeifed in com¬ 
mon with other genera, from thofe which peculiarly be¬ 
long to any individual genus. Thus, in refpeft to dif- 
eafes, as the condition and movements of the internal 
organs of the animal frame are not open to the immediate 
cognizance of our fenfes, we can only obtain information 
concerning them by an inveftigation of the external (igns, 
or fymptoms, which, as we are taught by experience, in¬ 
dicate certain internal operations. Every intelligent and 
diferiminating praftitioner mult, therefore, have formed a 
fpecies ofnolological fyftem in his own mind ; i. e. he mult 
have afeertained the lymploms which are charafteridic of 
the different forms of difeafe, and which diltinguilh each 
form from thofe others which refembie it. “ Whoever 
denies this,” as Dr. Cullen well obferves, “ may as well 
deny the exiltence of the medical art. For, if phydeians 
can actually diferiminate between one difeafe and an¬ 
other, they certainly can point out the marks of fuch 
diferimination. Now thefe marks are, in faft, the very 
circumftances which enter into the nofological defini¬ 
tion of the genera and fpecies of difeafe, and which it is 
the object of a rightly-ccnllrufted nofological (yltem to 
explain.” 
Notwithdanding the obvious and acknowledged im¬ 
portance of a lydem of nofology, no aftual attempt was 
made to accompliih fuch a work, before nearly the middle 
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