The New York Tribune gives a very curious story of
a man for whom the hospital surgeons provided an artificial face on the dis- appearance of his own. He had been so thoroughly salivated by mercury that a sort of cancerous formation made its appearance in his throat, which afterwards ate away the upper jaw, lip, and eye, and a large part of the nose. Dr. Buck, one of the oldest surgeons in the New York Hospital, set to work to remedy the evil. " In- cisions were made in one cheek, and a piece of flesh drawn over, from which a lip was formed. A piece of the frontal scalp was drawn down to make a new nose," an artificial jaw was formed, and a glass eye put in, and the whole face so changed that though the man completely recovered, his face was a new one to all his friends. It is a case, in fact, in which the identity of Mr. Bergen —that is the man's name—is to all his friends simply a question of historical evidence.
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