Yes, it is wonderfully nice to see how a common everyday event may be wrapped up in scientific jargon, and made to look nice. A damsel in Manchester had lost "herna»al bones and cartilage," so Dr Hardie " bandaged her arm in such a position as to enable the forefinger to be laid and plastered on her nasal cavity, and kept there for about three months." Of course, the nose grew all right, and with a little trimming and so forth became a very respectable nose indeed. Now, I have seen this curious surgical experiment tried over|and over again at school. To lay the first finger of the right hand gently but firmly upon the side of the fleshy and cartilaginous proboscis denom inated the nose, to leave it there, at the same time firmly closing theright optic, was the habit of my childhood's days. By the way, I can recommend a still more remark able experiment to Dr Hardies attention Press the tip of the right thumb-nail to the point of the nose (noso thingortwo), at the same time extending the fingers (extendis fingei'ibus) and pointing the little un straight at some one. This atti tude will have a most irritating effect upon the person pointed at ; he will be likely to rush at the experimentalist, giving him a (niger ego) or black eye, and perhaps, from the violence of the contact between his bunch of fives and the region of the (ego incisors) or hi teeth, producing extravasated fluid, &c, &c. , &c.
