The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-19
OLD SERIES, VOL. rS. NO. II
TER so. in Advance.

>dr!nker for twentyeight years. lie let n
legacy to his children, which we did net
mention Scroflla had been eating up one
daughter for fifteen years !; another is il,
the mad house the thirl and fourth Of un-
earthly beauty, there was kind ofgrandeur
in that beauty, but they blghted and paled,
faded into heaven we trust iii their sweetest
teens and anothcr.i, tott.iing on the verge
of the grave and only one is left with al the
senses, and enf. f.of them i. weak as water.
Why. we came from the dissec'ing room and
made note of it, it was so horrible Esl 8
4 genteman .octhirty-fve was sitting OF
a chair, with no specially critical symptom
present, still h was known to be a "dissipa,ed
young man. as the saying goes. He rose,
ran fifty feet, fell down and diel. The doet-
orS see beauty IN death, the chance for cut.
ting up a fellow anl looking about for sights.
The whole cov, ring of the brain was thick
cned. its cavities were filed xiih a fluid
which did not belong to them enough to kill
half a dozen rien with apoplcxy;a great
portion of one lung was in state of gangrcnc
and nearly all the other was hardened and
useless ; blood and yellow matter plastorzd
the inner covering of the lungs, while angry
red patches of destructive inflammation were
scattered along the whole almentaiy canal.
Why, there was enough of death In that
mans boly to lave killed forty men. The
doctor who talks about guzzlirg liquor every
day, being ''healtby,' is IA perfect disgrace
to the medical name, and ought to be turned
out to break rock for the turnpike for the
term OF his natural life at Il shilling day,
and find himself = Halrs Journal of Htalth.
A Bad case Of Diptheria cured.
The following severe case ofdiptheria is in
ter sting, showing, as it does, that this ma.
hgnant disorder may possibly be cured, even
in its most advanced stage. 1t appears that
several days ago Felix Scul1y, twenty seven
years of age, and native of Canada, wa. con.
veyed to the St. Louis City Hospital, willie
suffering from a very violent attack of Dip
liberia. After being placed under the treat
mcnt Of DR.. Cornyn at the City Hospital,
the disease began to yield readily to the To-.
cal application of strong solution of nitrate
Of silver, mild mercarial cathaItics with OUT
nine and a blister to the nape of the nc,k
The case proere ssed favorably until the as.
ter noon of the fourteenth instant. when the
unfortunate man, under the conviction that
he was beyond danger, left Lis bed undress-
ed and walked with bare feet on cod, un-
carpeted ficcr, and so remained for fully an
hour, and until forced by his nurse to return
to bed. During the following night all the
symptoms became intensely aggravated
The Tonsils were again covered with athick
coating of a sreyish white appearance, and
the breathing was very difficult.
The same treatment was resorted to as in
the beginninr and continued during the
whole of the 18th, until Z o'clock m, when
upon visiting him he was found to he upon
the verge of suffocation, and his whole ap-
pearance gave evidence that the respiratory
functions were almost suspended, and that
life could not be prolonged more than few
Medicine had failed and life was
fast Welding to the terrible garoter, diptheria.-
The only hope--a shadowy one-was to
open the windpipe below the larynx. THIS
DR.. Cornyn did as soon as the instruments.
and appliances could be got ready. In the,
operation he was ably assisted by Drs. Hod-
gen and Thompson. When the opening
was made into the windpipe, there was an
immense gush Of mucous, mixed with shreds
of the false membrane, which was blocking
up the trachia and laryny. A silver tube
was at once placed in tn opening through
which the mucous and lymph continued to,
escape, until now his recovery is placed be-
yond doubt.-RepuJ'iean, 25th.