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bad taste would have never more cried
"Coming, Sir"
The poor fellow, feeling that he
could not breathe, ran into the kitchen,
where in few seconds he fell, sur
rounded by the other servants, who
thought il was" fit" A few moments
terminated his convulsive struggles, and
he lay apparently dead. DR.. c. having
been sent for, arrived at this moment.
On looking into the mans mouth, he
ascertained the cause of the suffocation,
instantly opened the trachea at its low
er end, and cut out small piece of the
cartilage but nervous power was too
far gone to act upon respiration.
The Doctor was determined not to
give up without trying the artificial
movement the lungs, in the hope of
exciting MURAL one. He therefore
introduced quill into the wound, and
blowing through it, inflated by force,
which initiation he expelled gently, by
pressing on the breast and ribs this he
repeated, so as to carry on an artificial
breathing. The operation was crown
ed with complete success for about
the seventh or eighth initiation, the pa
TENTS pulse returned, and slight sob
gave notice that the muscles began to
act "a minute ortwo brought the man
into full life. Doctor Champion now
removed the piece of beef from the top
of the wind-pipe, where it was closely
jammed, by passing a long quill upwads,
through the apeture made below, and
SO pushing it against the piece of beef
relieved the throat Immediately, for
the obstructing matter was elected.
The patient was conveyed TO Meath
Hospital, where the attention of the
Doctor soon restored him completely !;
the wound healed in few days, and
the waiter once more resumed his pro
fessional duties. He has ever since been
as great an advocate as Mr.. Abornethy
for thorough masticaton and never fails
to Recommend it to his masters Gus
toners, whenever he is called upon TO
relate the accident which had so near
ly cost him his life.
The operation of Bronchotomy is
most useful one. 1t may be necessary
in cases where persons have swallowed
Vltrol or boiling water, as the burning
and inflammation of the throat may act so
as to shut up the apertures as effectually
as wage. Or it may be sometimes
required in Cynanche, or throat Quinsy,
when the inflammation runs high. None
ought to die Of sufocation from swal-
lowing any substance while there is a
surgeon at hand ;-even if he should
have no instrument but a penknife and
pair of scissors. 1t is an operation
which surgeons would do we'll to prac-
tice, either upon the dead subject or
upon dogs, until they become expert at
it for nothing tends TO make a surgeons
character more than case like the a.
bove besides, its great utility.-.Medical
.Adrertiser.
BrOnchotomy.--This very delicate
surgical operation was performed last
week upon small child of Capt John
Preston, of Ashford, about 20 months
old, by DR.. Joseph Palmer, of that
place. A bean Of the largest kind, usu-
ally called the Kidney bean, which the
child had picked up in the garden, lodg-
ed in its wind-pipe. The Doctor found
it laboring under such threatening dam
ger of suttocation as to preclude any
hope of assistance from the neighbor-
ing surgeons; and, notwithstanding the
want Of proper assistance, and the dis
couragements and even remonstrances
of the family, commenced the opera
ton, and in few minutes the bean was
extracted, the wound closed, the child
relieved. 12 hours after the opera
ton, ii was as chez rful as ever.
Conn. Paper.
EFFECT OF MooNLIGHT.-It is we'll
known, that under certain circumstan-
ces, water will sink to the temperature
of 25 degrees before it freezes, or takes
the form of crystals. Indeed it will in
variably do so in the absence of any
mechanical agitation, and in the alb
sence Of light. 1t is an unquestionable
fact, but one which has not hitherto
been attended to, that before the moon
rises on still clear night, when the at
mosphere is at lower temperature
than 33, the water remains in liquid
state, but Immediately on the moons
rising, and dlffusiug its light around, the
water freezes, and performs the saluta-
ry Offices required of it, without sub
jecting US to the severity Of low tenn
perature. Gmney's Lect. on Chemistry.
From THE HUDsoN WING.
c. Hoxie, ofthe city of Hudson, has
been engaged a number of years, in
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