Be assured that, if you come, you
may go home again with as much nose as you please."
It does not, however, appear that the nasal operation made any impression
on our ancient English surgeons. Wiseman does not even mention it, though
slitting the nose, and cutting off the ears, was a common mode of punishing
political delinquents in his time; and it is said that Prynne, whose ears
were cut off, had new ones made, "_a la_ Taliacotius." The fact is, that
the operation was misunderstood, and disbelieved, as we know by the jocose
manner in which it is alluded to by Butler. It has, however, been
successfully revived, and performed, by Mr. Carpue.
Connected with the varieties of the organ of scent, is the well-known story
of that extraordinary lusus, the _Pig-faced Lady_.--_Brande's Journal_.
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THE ANECDOTE GALLERY.
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ARCTIC ADVENTURES.
_From the Tales of a Voyager. Second Series._
THE MORSE, OR SEA HORSE.
After a long and tedious interval of misty, dripping weather, we obtained
sufficient sun at noon, to find ourselves in latitude 72.
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