For this purpose a picture of a normal eye and its lids, a nose, lip or ear, is drawn upon a piece of oiled or stencil paper, or upon any thick, stiff book board. The paper is laid down upon a plate of glass and the outlines of the picture are cut out, wide enough to allow the sharpened point of a pencil to pass. Where the lines are long it is advisable to allow connecting links to remain at various intervals as desired to keep the stencil stiff and to prevent cut margins from slipping or rolling up. (See Fig. 521.) [Illustration: FIG. 521.—NOSE STENCIL.] The stencil thus made is laid upon the record card and a tracing is made upon the latter by passing the lead-pencil point along the cut outline. The stencil is now lifted and the defect sketched into the picture of the normal organ. If this should be the anterior nasal line, a perfect sketch can be made of the defect by placing a card alongside of that organ and drawing the outline upon it as the pencil is made to glide over the nose, the point facing the card in such a way that a true profile outline is obtained. The card is then cut along the pencil line. The nasal section of the card is now placed upon the stenciled nose and its outer border traced into or over it, as the case may be, by drawing the pencil point along the outer margin. The same method may be followed post-operatio. This method can be employed for the other parts of the face as well, as, for instance, the mouth, ears, base of nose, etc. Distances in measurements should be put into the record drawing to make it more exact. =The Rubber Stamp.=—Another method is to make outline sketches of normal parts of the face with India ink upon drawing board and have those reproduced in rubber stamps, using the stamp in place of the stencil and marking in the defect in the manner before mentioned. =The Plaster Cast.=—The best method by far, however, and the one found most accurate, is the plaster cast. It is not a difficult thing to make a cast of a nose, eyelid, lip, or ear, and the latter is much more preferable to any other method of record. For this purpose some modeling clay is required, which is molded into a strip and laid around the part to be reproduced. This forms a sort of raised ring or border and prevents the overflow of the semiliquid plaster, and avoids the annoyance of trickling the liquid upon other parts of the face about the site of the part worked on; at the same time it permits of neatness and uniformity in the size and shape of the casts to be filed away as records. (See Fig. 522.) [Illustration: FIG. 522.—METHOD OF MAKING NASAL PLASTER CAST.] The skin surface, and hair, if any, within this ring area, before using this plaster of Paris, is now thoroughly coated with clean oil, or petrolatum, applied with a soft sable brush. The inner and upper part of the wax ring is also coated.