infallibly, that the sick person died that week. I knew also,"
observes the same author, "a man bit by a mad dog, who could distinguish
his friends at a considerable distance by the smell, before even he could
distinguish them by sight."

So early as the second century, the supplying the deficiency of a lost nose
became an object of professional consideration; and the Greeks gave the
name [Greek: Kolobhomata], to those who required such an operation.
Taliacotius was the first who treated it scientifically; and, from his
time, the art of Addition became one of the branches of surgery; and, under
the title _"De Decoratione,"_ formed a very interesting chapter.

Although Taliacotius has the credit of bringing the art of nose-making into
fashion, and being the first to write on the mode and manner of performing
the operation, yet it appears that one Branca had been in the habit of
performing it long before, as we learn from an ancient author, whose name
must, in this instance, be considered as the highest authority, being no
less a person than NOSORENUS.

Why the magistracy of Bologna should have conferred the high honour of a
statue on Taliacotius it is difficult to understand,--unless the loss of
the nose was of more frequent occurrence than in those days, from the
barbarity of warfare and civil punishment; for an old law of the Lombards
assigned the loss of the nose as a punishment for theft; and the captives
in war were equally spoiled for snuff-takers.

That this was no uncommon dilemma with Italian gentlemen in the fifteenth
century, appears by the style in which a Neapolitan poet writes to the
_noseless_ Orpianus:--"If," says he, "you would have your nose restored,
come to me--truly the thing is wonderful. 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-know