Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-08-02
CASE OF LARYNGoTo,,v

The C,l..gou, Medical J,.I Ch1'
operation OF this kind which performed in September
pipe of child by MIR. W. Mackay, surgeon Gl,smou
1t illustrates both the little danger ATTENDING the oner
non and the facility with which the foreign body is some
tunes extracted The symptoms, says the reporter were
now much more severe than they wero ON anv toroa
WISH every tune the cough troubled her, which was We
~ oiten her face got quite vid and the -
dyspnGa which required at least every hour were w
severe each seeming more likely tan the preceding to
put period to her existence. Alter eynlaninr 10 h.
friends the real nature of the case and the
opcraton called in the afternoon with my friends Mr.
James eatson and Mr.. Maekensie both of whom agreed
IN the opinion had formed of the probable success of A..
operation Alter unexpected DELAY on tho mart -
the mother till she consulted friends in The conr
y her consent obtained and the operation was nor
formed at ten o'clock in the evening. / made The ort.,
nal nclsion about inch long and entered the l,rvn
immediately above the cicyd cartilage, which, by
cond incison cut through. The air no sooner rot
vent by the nctson than large quantity mucus came
rushing out she at the experienced severe
paroxysm OF dyspn1a, but after the opening was It,I
more enlarged and the mucus wiped awov sbo hoa, -,
breathe with comparative Tho edges of the sonnd
were kept separate with blunt hooks for abom. -;
ute, when the atone came rusng up the wound drn,
an expiration laid hold of it With a pair of drcs;.
forceps, and extracted it with II is he size Of an
and no vessel required to be tied Aftor few m;nntc.
she was put to bed and the wound left open tbro,S'
tlie natural passage. In less than an hour, she WI
ca SO as to DE understood and drank some cold
Freely. Durug the night she slept for five hours
day she could nrticula;e words she kept her hand on
wound on the third day the wound was dressed for tho
first time; but the dressing had to be remoyed j., En-
evening, IN consequence OF pain i'll her side and gen,
era oppression over the chest, both which 3is,.,r
ed by The next day. On the fifth the wound berpr .,
close OF ITS own accord and slight dressings were applied
ny tne seventh she breathed through only when she
coughed all the twelfth or thirteenth dav II was
dressed Tor the last time. The cough had ,r.
ana inc girl appeared well and stout as before the
accident" ~ o'ioto 'ho
, original .ineedote concerning Burn,-yost6,,no,,. ~
th"s'asn-The spot which contains the dnst ~ th =,
ustrious dead has always been reckoned sacred and
my OF beng visited by their admirers But this uenr
aoh unu admirable feeling is not confined tn their rst
alone 1T extends to whatever was once in ,Lo;S '
Ion, OF which innumerable instances might he ,dd,S
nc oio9raPher OF Melancthon informs u.s. that those w
m d e ther last look of his remains, snatchod up
az u Pel' or any scrap of paper which thew imnoined
mad been In the hands of that celebrated refry s
same may be said of the ROYAL Oak Shakeno,ra,. -
crave os Nap willow or that which shades tho
some siPs nave been planted in Britain The rn,s -
hirk merely because they furnished tho n,ns
1i burns WITH ono, of the most imaginative of his strains
peen stripped OF every vesge of timber tn bo
uFactured into snuff boxes toddy ladea Mr. III,
hart In ms Life of Burns, (Which were ravaar, In
informs u.s. that at the sale of his farm stookno
every article was purchased with ayditv boca
oeen the property of the hapless poef md r. M
20 corroborate the testimony of his biorb
y an AUTHENTIC anecdoe. About 90 years aoo 8 snt,
sehlenah stun alive and warm admrer Of Rnr, a.
ms return from London, happened to traI,.I Oh
WIN an Englishman, who, from previous
'1na perfectly understood tho vernacular
ostc % our language, and was still more entbus;
So; imirer OF Burns than his companion enartan;n
icI fellow travellers by recitinp and ernIa;m; ,,s
rost beautiful passages ofthe Cotters
ouin"d ;tt INQUIRED whether he was personally ac
seeing MIN, replied the Eng;ishmsn hnt IT, ..
1 mes OUT oil my way for the sole purnose AZ sse; :
~ wnch mad been reared tho farm OF EEssnd pa
- S S@is "a his farm stocking 81
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