You’re beautiful. But your honker? Needs work. M. Trilety brings you the latest in schnozzle improvement tech. Here’s a surviving example of his snifferoni adjuster, which in no way resembles an inquisition device.
Mr. Trilety’s products were not exclusive to the US. Londoners pursuing proboscis perfection? Here you go.
Snout improver Instructions, from a University of Buffalo historical collection.
Trilety would also sell you a fix for your bow legs.
My thing is that, assuming it worked at all, It would take years to cause a permanent change.
I’m not confident it wouldn’t work at all though. The body can and does change with consistent pressure and/or use patterns. Braces are a perfect example.
I suspect that this might give you some temporary shifts after a few weeks of use. I think they might last a day or two. They wouldn’t be as significant as the ad makes it out, but it’s definitely possible to shift fat under the skin by applying constant pressure. You can see it when people wear overly tight clothing regularly. Cartilage can be changed in similar circumstances, though not that drastically afaik.
But, when the pressure is relieved, tissues tend to go back to where they normally would be.
I did a minor search for the general subject matter, but with the changes to the main search engines, every result is utterly useless crap about plastic surgery and injections, and I don’t have the patience to dig through bullshit to get to useful hits for this minor amount of curiosity.
That being said, I have personally seen noses and ears changed by extended pressure applied. But it was in bedbound patients unable to move on their own, and it did take a really long time to show up. Where I lack confidence is a device like this. I want to say it shouldn’t work. And that’s likely the truth, that it wouldn’t. But with long term changes happening from similar things, I can’t dismiss it out of hand either
That was my thinking too. With most of the 1800s and early 1900s medical quackery, I feel pretty confident in saying that it’s complete nonsense. But I wasn’t confident to state that here, for the reasons you say. That’s not to say it definitely could, of course. But I was thinking about things like those cultures that reshape people’s skulls by binding them tightly for long periods of time, and so on.
Exactly; foot binding too, as well as the neck ring thing, etc. There’s plenty of examples, but this one still “feels” quacky lol
Agreed. I wager it probably did nothing in practice because who the hell is going to tolerate having that thing smooshing their nose for years? People probably wore it intermittently for a week or two, told themselves their nose looked nicer, and carried on.