River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-03-22
A SURGICAL CURIOSITY.
A Man Whose Throat Was Cut, and
Who Was Hanged, Stabbed and
Frozen Still Lives,

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Who Was Hanged, Stabbed and
Frozen Still Lives,
Professor E. F. ingalls, introduced an
interesting subject to the class at his
clinic at Rush Medical college yesterday
"a man who had his throat cut from ear
to ear, been stabbed and hanged and his
feet frozen and yet is alive to-day and
ENJOYING excellent health. The name of
this remarkable person is Simon Ladin-
ski. He is native of Roumania, aged
twenty eight, and has wife and four
children. He is quite intelligent, and
has picked up fair knowledge of Eng
lish during four weeks spent in London
and three weeks in this country. A re-
porter saw him last evening and learned
his story, which was substantially this:
He lived in Jassy, and April 10, 1871
while he and twelve other wine-growers
were returning home from Vaslin, where
they had sold their produce for about
10000. thew we're attacked by band Of
gypsies numbering twenty-one Ladin-
Ski and his whole party were left for
dead, scattered over the ground. Iadin-
ski, however, who had been stabbed In
several places, and whose throat was cut
the windpipe being severed, but none
of the large arteries being inlureda-came
to. and, seeing the thieves duarreling
among themselves about the plumber.
tried to escape by crawling into the bush,
He was discovered and strung upon 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
lifeless, he was cut down and
thrown among his murdered com
panlons. Forty-eight hours after
wards some passers- by found that he
was alive, his feet in the meantime hay
ing been frozen. He and one of his
towsmen, WHO was also breathing, were
taken home, where the latter died. Lad-
nski, was sent to Vienna for treatment,
and remained in a hospital there for five
years under the care of Dr. Schoetter.
lie could not swallow anything for two
years, nourishment being gwen him by
enemata. His throat finally healed, but
it was found that there was no opening
through the upper end Of the windpipe
to the mouth. So little tube was in
serted 10 dilate it, and the size of the
tubes gradually increased until one-quar-
ter of an inch in diameter could be in
serted in the hole. Ladinski was then
taught how to use the instruments, and
he can now put in one measuring, three
eighths of an inch. And he has special
tube which he uses every night, for plae-
ing in his windpipe above the cut half
inch plug. 1, When he
has dilated the hole so
that he can insert little larger plug, n
competent larynologist can close the hole
in his neck through which he now
breathes, and enable him to respire like
the ordinary mortal.
The feau of h s case which is inter
esting to the medical profession is the
opening of the CLOTHS above the cut.
There are not few people who breathe
through u tube inserted in the neck, but
il is rare to find one whose windpipe
has been restored after Inflammation has
closed the rtleading to the mouth. Its
restoration therefore, is great triumph.
Ladinski can breathe now as well as
ever, but cold air hurts his lnngs, az it
has no chance to get warm before 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 he students an opportunity to see
his vocal chords in operation. Chicago
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