Case of Operation for the Restoration of the Nose

Civil Surgeon, Kliundwah, Central Provinces. As the following operation presents, I think, some 'new features, the details may not prove uninteresting. Gunnia, a Brahmin female, aged 25, was brought by the Police to the dispensary, her husband having bitten off her nose in a jealous fit. I saw her on the third morning after the injury, and found that both ala) of the nose were bitten off almost level with the cheeks, the anterior part of the septum was also destroyed, and the flesh covering the nasal bones removed almost to a level with the eyebrows,leaving