A SURGICAL CURIOSITY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1310, 17 April 1883, Page 4

A SURGICAL CURIOSITY.

i’Hoi'KßaoH E, F. Ingins introduced an inter* eating subject to the clue nt hie cline nt Kush Medical College on a recent afternoon —a man who had hie throat cut from ear to ear, been etabbed and hanged and had hie feet frozen and yet la alive to-day and enjoying excellent health. The name of thia remarkable person ie Simon Ladinski. He it a native of ttoumania, aged twenty-eight, and hat a wife and four children, He ia quite intelligent, and haa picked up a fair knowledge of English during four weeks ,ln London and three weeka in thia country. A reporter saw him recently and learned hie story, which was substantially this i He lived in Jassy, and April IS, 1877, while he and twelve other Tine-growers were returning home from Vaslin, where they had told their produce for about 20,000d015, they were attacked by a band of gypsies numbering twenty-one- Ladinski and his party were left for dead, scattered over the ground. Ladinaki, however, who had been atabbed in several places, whose throat was cut—the windpipe being severed, but none of the large arteries injured—came to. and, seeing ths theives quarreling among themselves about the plunder, tried to escape by crawling into the brush. He was discovered and strung up on the limb of a tree. Luckily the rope was placed above the cut, and, though he soon become insensible, ho eon* tinned to breathe. After he had been hanging for ten minutes or so, being apparently lifeless, he was cut down and thrown among his murdered companions. Forty-eight hours afterwards some passers-by found that he was alive, his feet in the meantime having been frozen. He and one of his townsmen, who was breathing were taken home, where the latter died. Ladinski, woe sent to Vienna for treatment, and remained in a hospital for five years under the care of Dr. Scheotter. He couldnot swallow anything for two yean, nourishment being given him by enemata. His throat finally healed, but it was found that there was no opening through the upper end of the windpipe to the mouth. Ho a little tube was inserted to dilate it, and the size of the tubes gradually increased until one-quater of an inch in diameter could be inserted in the hole. Ladinski was then taught how to use the instruments, and can now put in one measuring three-eights of an inch. And he has a special tube which he uses every night for placimg in his windpipe above the cut a half-inch plug. When he has dilated the hole so that he can insert a little larger plug, a competent larynologist can close the hole in his neck through which he now breathes, and enable him to respire like the ordinary mortal. The feature ot his case which 1s insteresting to the medical profession is the opening ot the glottis above the cut, There? are not a few people who breathe through a tube inserted in the neck, but it is rare to find one whose wind-pipe lias been restored after inflammation has closed the part leading to the mouth. Its restoration therefore, is a great triumph. Ladinski can breathe now as well as ever, but cold air hurts his lungs, as it has no chance to get warm before it reaches them, he is on his way to San Francisco, where his brother and family are, bnt before he leaves he will visit the Chicago medical colleges and give the chords in operation.- - Chicago Tribune.