A nose by any other name

摘要

"The patient leaped upon a table, and, laying himself on his back, with his head supported by a pillow, refused to be held; saying 'I hope I shall behave like a man!'" The man on the table was a Captain Williamson, an officer in the British army. The man wielding the scalpel was London society surgeon Joseph Carpue. Both prayed the operation would be a great success. Williamson was desperate for a new nose; his own had been destroyed by disease. Carpue (left) was equally eager, he had waited 20 years for a patient who was both suitable and willing to submit to a new type of surgery. If all went well, the captain would be able to show his face in public once more and Carpue would win fame as a restorer of noses.