The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-12


Louis Loudenki, Polish Jew, aged
about % years, remarkable example Of
the success Of surgical science, arrived
the other day in Buffalo. To what has
already been made public concerning
this man and his strange case, the Buff
fale Courier, whose reporter visited
Loudend at the Office OF DR.. Warren,
adds many interesting particulars. The
story Of his experiences would be in.
credible but for the fact that they are
aid % b euhstanfiated BY the police ~
cords of Austria and hy the medical re-
pords Of Vienna, in whose medical
school one Of the FIRST in Europe, be was
long Q living curiosity, whose manifeata.
lions Of life were q subject Of interest
to the six thousand students attending
the famous college Of the Austrian capi-
tai Eight years ago Loudenki attained
his majority, and on the death Of an
uncle came into the possession Of SO, 900,
which in his country would be called 4
fortune. His business called him, fire.
quently to Australia, Italy and other
distant parts. In the month Of Febru-
aRy, 1877, he and party of I'VE Others
were crossing the mountains In Rou-
mania with their goods on horseback,
Loudenki carrying his all strapped by
his side, when q party of gipsy robbers,
armed with swords, swept down upon
them and began the work of slaughter
ing their victims in the hope Of plundeF.
The travellers were one by cne knocked
down and then dispatched by drawing
the short sword across their throats.
Loudenki was fourth on the list Of vic
Tins SO dealt with, but in his case only
the wind-pipe and 9sophagus or food
pipe were severed, the jugular wien re-
manning unharmed. The robbers on
looking over their booty and finding
that LoudenH was the wealthiest, took
exceptional measures TO ensure his death.
Tying a rope around his neck, they hung
him on an adjoining tree and left him
suspended for dead. But, through the
aperture in his windpipe, the injured
man still contrivsd 80 breathe, aud, after
& lapse Of forty-eight hours, was rescued
by a band of Roumanian peasants, who
at first were difficult TO persuade that he
was not dead. He was conveyed 10 q
warm cabin, and, Notwithstanding the
treatment he received and the exposure
| 10 4 temperature of intense cold he
showed sighns Of animation just as the
peasants were preparing for q decent
/ burial. Ten days after the injury the
sufferer reached Vienna where he wa
/ placed under the care of skillful sur
/ geon named Schraeder, with encourage
ling results. "For twenty six days" salt
Loudenki, al was unable to swallow
food, and for 1S6 days / was in an un
conscious state Liquid food, consistin
Of vine, milk and extract of beef wa
; administered by injection. For tw
wears lived entirely on this kind c
food" In Vienna a shuttle shaped II
strument or curve sound, partly sllve
and partly galvanized steel and vulcanit,
was made to act as dialator to obviaI
contraction of the injured air passag'
The dialator resembles an instrumen
constructed some years ago by Professe
Edward NJ. Moore. In placing it in tn
passage over night it is hoped that in
month or two the structure caused b
the injury will be altogether overcOm,
II is believed that Loudenki is the onl
; living subject who presents the feature
'1of having his throat cut in this way
J showing a complete severance of tn
bronchial tube and also of the esophi
gus OF LuDO WAtSi NOh'N9 tAS @~N
from the mouth to the stomach.
4 II was q curious spectacle to see Lou
denki smoking a cigarette, inhaling wit
his mouth and letting the fumes escap
through the aperture in his throat, o
putting his finger Or the tube and ALLOW
ing the smoke to issue from the mout
and nostrils.
| The wound was explained by DE
Warren as extending from the inne
sides of the carotid arteries, also be
tween the inner sides Of the two jugula
yisns. 'The hanging" said the doctor
0saved the mans life by the pressure NJ
the blood vessels not allowing the bloo'
to enter the lungs, which would hav
been attended by suffocation." On r.
moval of the tube the open circula
wound large enough to admit a man
finger, disclosed some features which tn
doctor explained to be of great mediea
\ interest Looking upwards could b
seen the glottis and vocal cords; loekin
downwards there was visible the larg
| bronchial tube leading to tthe lung
IdThe action Of these in the living sui
y iect has never heretofore been seen,
remarked the doctor.
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