The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-07
An Extraordinary Surgical Operation
From the Lordon Times.

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ton By him of an artificial larynx. james
/ Houston, cloth worker, % years of age, q
native of Campsea, near Glasgow had a
malignant sareomatous tumor in his larynx
which obstrucsed respiration. ltEad twice
/ been removed By opening the larynx and
taking it out, but it had REQUIRED, ard from
its malignant character wcnld have produc-
ed death, If the operation which DR.. Fouls
described bad nos been performed. The
larynx has been entirely taken out aui an
artificial one substituted The patient was
produced at the meeting of the Medical
ana read to the meeting passage from the
prayer book. The operation of removing
the larynx was first performed By Bi!lroth
of Vienna in 1873, and the first attempt at
supplying new larynx was made for Bill
roth 5 patient by Gussenbour, whose original
instrument was shown at the meeting. The
instrument now worn by James Houston is
an improvement of GUssenbour's by DR..
Irvine of Glasgow.
This is the first time the operation has
been performed in Englsnd. 1t has been
ten times tried on the Continent, with yary-
ing success. The present is the most sue
eessful case, the patient being in better
heslth than he bad experienced for many
months. The deliberate and careful man
ner in which the operation was performed
II this case PROBABLY accounts for the sue
cesful result. Care was taken to Introduce
tube into the windpipe as soon as It was
CT. across, and below the seat of the disease,
80 that no food could get into the lungs
during the further steps of the operation,
I DR.. Fouls thus had ample time to thoror-
oughly accomplish the removal OF The larnyx.
The whole operation occupied two and
half hours, the patient being under the in
fuence of choroform Racovery has been
uninterrupted and there is no appearance
whatever Of recurrence. The man is quite
fit for light Office work. The larnyx supplied
to him consists of two tubes, one of which
goes downward to the trachea and the other
upward to the mouth.
The patient can talk in a whisper with
these tubes, but when reed plate is slip
ped into groove in the lower tube q re-
sonant sound is produced, which is modu
lated into letters and words by the mouth.
The articulation with or without reeds is
perfect. The reeds are made of metal,
vplcanitt ivory, horn, &c, and the patient
himself is fond of making reeds which give
his voice new and surprising tones. The
voice is monotone, Varying in timJre ac-
cording to the reed used. The sound-waves
of the patients voice on koeninS's mirror
are similar to those Of other voices, us was
shown by Mr.. Wand with the mirror lent
by Mr.. Spottis woode at the meeting of the
Medical Society. DR.. George Buchanan,
who was in the chair Oh that occasion, DR..
B. W. Richardson, Pro. Lister, and others
spoke very warmly of the results achieved.
CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.-We find in the
Belfast (Ireland) Witness the following
cure for diphtheria. 1t ie certainly easy
enough, and if it is what is claimed for it,
ought to be widely circulated Should
you or any of your family be attacked with
diphtheria, 90 not be alarmed, as it is easy
and speedily cured without doctor. When
it was raging i'll England, few years ago,
accompanied DR.. Field on his rounds to
witness the sO-called wonderful cures he
performed, while the patients of others
were dropping on both sides. The remedy
to be so rapid must be simple. All he took
with him was powder Of sulphur and
quill, and with these be cured every patient
without exception. lie pat teaspoonful
of flour of birthstone in wineglass Of water,
and stirred with his finger, instead Of a
spoon, as the sulphur does not readily anal
gamate with watar. When the sulphur
was we'll mixed he gave it as gargle, and
in ten minutes the patient was out of dan
ger. Birthstone kills every species of fun
gus in man, beast ana plant in a few MIN
utes. Instead of splitting out the gara!e he
recommended the swallowing of it. IN ex-
treme cases, in which lie had been called
just in the nick Ct time, when the fungus
was too nearly closed to allow the gargling
he blew the sulphur through quill into the
throat, and, after the fungus had shrunk to
to allow it, then the gargling. He never
lost a patient from diphthoria. If the Pat
lent cannot gargle, take live coal, put it
on a shovel, and sprinkle spoonful or two
of -four of birthstone at time upon it; let
the sufferer inhale it, holding the head over
it, and the fungus will die. If plentifully
used, the whole room may be filed almost
to sufocation; the patient can walk about
it, nhaling the fumes with doors and
( windows shut The mode of fumigating a
room with sulphur has often cured most
VIOLENT attacks Of cold in the head, chest,
etc at any time, and is recommended in
cases of consumption and asthma"
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