The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-04-05
A Singular Case.

Prof. e. +. Ingals introduced an in
teresting subject to the class ut his clinic
at Rush Medical College, Yesterday af-
ternoon--a man who had had his throat
cut from ear to ear, been stabbed and
hung, and had his feet frozen, and yet
Is awe to-day aud enjoying excellent
health. The name Of this remarkable
person IS Simon Ladi lski. lie is a na-
1--WE OF Roumania, tged twenty-eight,
ana has wife and four children. He
! is quite intelligent, and has picked I'D a
TAR knowledge Of English during four
weeks spent in London and three weeks
in this country. A reporter saw him
last evening and learned his story,
which was substantially this:
He lived in Jassy, and April Is. 1877.
while he and twelve other wine-prowers
were returning home from Vaslin, where
they kad sold their produce for about
900, they were attacked by a band
of gypsie5 numbering twenty-one La
dinski and his whole party were LETT for
dead, scattered over the ground. La
dlnski, however, who had been stabbed
in several places, and whose throat was
cut-the windpipo being severed, but
none Of tho arteries injured-came to,
and, seeing the thieves quarreling among
themselves about the plumber, tried to
escape by crawling into the brush He
was discovered and strung up on the
limb Of Il tree. Luckily the rope was
placed above the cut, and, though he
soon became insensible, he continued
to breathe. After he had been hanging
tor ten minutes or so, being apparently
lheless, he was cut down and thrown
among his murdered companions.
Oft oY.l
scrs'by found that he was alive, his feet
IN the meantime having been frozen.
lie and one of his townsmen, who was
also breathing, were taken home, where
the latter died.
LadInSti was sent to Vienna for treat
ment, and remained in a hospital there
for five years under the care of DR.,
SchOctter. He could not swallow any
thing for two years, nourishment being
| given him by cncmNta. His throat
finally healed, but it was founG. that
there was no opening through the upper
end OF the windpipe to the mouth. So
q little tube was inserted to dilate it,
and the size of the tubes gradually in
creased until one quarter Of an inch in
diameter could he inserted in the hole.
! LadlnSki 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 placing in his windpipo
! above the cut a half-inch plug. When
| he has dilated the hole so that he can
| insert little larger plug, competent
| lRryngolOgist can close the hole in his
neck through which he now brcathos,
and enable him to re3pire like the ordi-
nary mortal.
| The feature of his case which is in
| tereStimg to the medical profession is
thcopening of the CLOTHS above the cut
| There arc not a few people who breathe
| through tube inserted in the neck,
| but it is rare to tind one whose wind
! pipe has been restored after intlamma-
ton has closed the part leading to the
mouth. Its restoration, therefore, is
great triumph.
Ladinski can breathe now as well as
! ever, but cold air hurts his lungs, ~ it
has no chance to get warm before it
reaches them. He is on his way to San
| Francisco, whore his brother and family
Rre, but before he leaves he will visit tho
other Chicago medical colleges and give
| the students an opportunity to see his
vocal chords in operation. The pro-
I fessiOn here are certainly indebted to
| DR.. Morrill, Mckenzie, of London, who
sent Ladinski to Professor ingalls,
Chicago Tribune.