Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-03-09
\ REAL CURIOSITY.
l Il His Throat Cat, vas Hanged, Stabbed and
Fro-t-, bat Il Live.
A FEATUTE IN TIE CASE INTEREST
ING To PHYSICIANS.

Professor E. I. Ingals introduced
an interesting subject to the class at
bis clinic at Rush Medical College
yesterday afternoon-a man who had
his throat cut from ear to ear, been
stabbed and hanged and had his feet
frozen and yet is alive today and en-
joying excellent health. Tae name
of this remarkable person is Simon
Ladinski. He is a native Of Rou-
mania, aged twenty eight, and has 6
wife and four children. He is quite
intelligent, and has picked up fair
knowledge OF English during four
weeks spent in London and three
weeks in this country. A reporter
saw him last evening ana learned his
story, which was substantially this
He lived in Jassy, and April Is,
1917, while he and twelve other wine
growers We're returning home from
Naslln. where they had sold their pro
duce for about $4,000. they We're at
tackled by Il band OF gypsies number
ing twenty one. Ladinski and his
whole party We're left for dead, seat
tered over the ground. Ladinshi.
however, who had been stabbed in
sever.l places, and whose throat was
cut-the windpipe being severed, but
none of the large arteries injured
came to, and seeing the thieve; quar-
rellEg among themselves about the
plunder, tried to escape by crawling
into the brush. He was discovered
and strung up on the limb of a tree,
Luckily the rope was placed above
the cut, and, though he soon became
insensible, he continued to breathe.
After he had been hanging for ten
minutes or 50, being apparently life
less, he was cut down and thrown
among his murdered companions.
Forty-eight hours afterwards some
passersby found that he was alive,
his feet in the mean time having
been frozen. He and ono of his
townsmen, who was also breathing.
were taken home, where the latter
died. Ladinoki was sent to Vienna
for treatment, and remained in
hospital there for five years under
the care of DR.. Schoetter. He could
not swallow anything for two years,
nourlshment being given him by
eremata. His throat finally healed,
but it was found that there was no
opening through the upper end OF
the windpipe to the mouth. SO a lit
tie tube was inserted to dilate it, and
the size of the tubes gradually in
creased until one-quarter of an inch
in diameter could be inserted in the
hole. Ladinski was then taught how
to use the instruments, and he can
now put in one measuring three
eiyhts of an inch. And he has
special tube which hs uses every
night for placing in his windpipe
above the cut ahalf-inch plug. When
he has dilated the hole SO that he can
insert little larger plug, compe-
tent larynologist can close the hole
in his neck through which he now
and enable him to respire
like the ordinary mortal.
The feature of his case which is in
teresting TO the medical profession
is the opening of the glottis above
the cut. There are not few people
who breathe through a tube inserted
in the neck, but it is rare to find
one whose windpipe has been re-
stored after inflammation has closed
the part leading to the mouth. Its
restoration, therefore, is a great tri-
umph.
Ladinski can breathe now as we'll
as ever, but cold air hurts his lungs,
as it has no chance to get warm be-
fore it reaches them. He is on his
way to San Francisco, where his
brother and family are, but before he
leaves he will visit the other Chicago
medical colleges and give the stu
dents an opportunity to see his vocal
chords in operation.-l Chicago Tri-
bune.