The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-06
from the st. Paul (Minn) Pioneer, Dec. 20. J
Remarkable Discovery

About nine months ago a young man
named George Hansen was seriously i'll in
this city with the typhoid fever, and when
he recovered it was with the total loss of
his hearing and his power of speech. This
terrible calamity rendered him almost Wild
and for a time the contemplation of the
termination of his life was not an unfrc-
quent thing with him. sThrough the eXer-
tons of his friends, Mr.. Hansen was en-
ployed 10 assist in copying the records of
the sixth ward at Hastings. Last Saturday
night Mr. Hansen complained to his ROOM
mate, w. w. Hoyt that he felt very I'M
pleasant pressure in his throat and pain
ful buzzing in his head. He had the whis-
kers shaved from his chin. and tried vari
GUS applications but they were of no avail
the pressure continued and the buzzing
did not diminish in the least. Hoyt con-
tnued with him until IL o'clock al night.
During this time, when Mr.. Hansen obtain
ed some temporary relief from his pain and
suffering, he wrote on a slate that he felt
that his speech would that night be restored
to him or he would die About 3 o'clock
Sunday morning, after recovering from a ter
rible spasm occasioned by the pain, he ask
cd Hoyt to take tube that had been used
to inject kind of powder into his throat,
to put it to his ear and speak in an ordi-
nary tone. He did so, when Hansen re-
| piled in Il natural voice, though without
knowing that he had heard or spoken. lie
complained of the buzZlng and cracking in
| his head, though the pain seemed 10 be de-
creasing. A little while after this Mr.. Hoyt
left the room and was absent several
minutes. and during his absence Hansen
chad one of the severest attacks that he had
been suiiering, ana duiing iIs continuance
ter from his throat. From this discharge
he received instant and complete relief to
the pressure in his throat and to the buzz
/ zing in his head, and when his companion,
Mr.. IIoyt, entered the room, he was as
tonishcd by being greeted by Hansen ex-
claiming, "Well, Hoyt, how are you ?"
The restoration was so complete, so sud-
den and so unexpected that both Hansen
and his companion hardly knew what to
make of it, and could hardly realize that it
was fact. They talked it over. expert
mented and tried in variety of ways to
prove that it was a fact that Hansen could
hear aud talk. They finally concluded that
the news was too good to keep, and SO they
took the morning train to the city to let
their friends here know of the good for
tune that had befalen the sufferer. I'M
mcdiately upon arriving here the two went
to the residence of John Il. Oliver, friend
of Mr.. Hansen, and surprised him. Mr..
Oliver had been to Hastings on Friday, and
had there conversed with the sufferer by
writing on slate, and was, Of course, as
tonished to hear his friend talking as glib
ly as though nothing had interiered with
his ability to speak. From Mr.. Oliver
residence the two went around town sur
prising their friends with the good news.
Probably there never was so happy a man
in St. Paul as was Mr. Hansen last Sun
day. For niue months he has been with
out the power Of hearing or speaking, and
oppressed with the terrible expectation
that he would never again be able to either
hear or speak.