The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-09
SAVED FRoN THE JAWS OF DEATH.

o%AN Iii HsO-S lHE JAWS OF Ii.
There will be heroic rrgical opera
ton to-day at the New York hospital -
said young doctor to the ritter, such an
operation as is seldom to be seen in any
part of the world" be continued. Cdr. w.
I. Bull Is going to remove patients
larnyxfor cancer of that organ"
The writer made haste to accept the gen.
erous invitation, and just os the clocks
we're striking the hour of 3 we mounted
the stone steps of the well-known New York
hospital. -.
Soon we stood in the crowded lobby.
waiting in common with doctors and sur
geons OF both great AID small renown, for
the elevator, which was to carry US to the
eighth story, where the operating theater is
situated.
AS we sped up the shaft occasional
ghmpses of long ward rooms pas ed before
our vision like shadows iu dream Long
platoons Of beds, wllereol lay the sick some
il the hopefuiness of a speedy recovery,
some in the last dark moments OF life, when
The 'shroud and the pail and the sierra
agony are all that remain for the DO lv A.
At last We emerged from the elevator
car, and entered the operating theater,
where we We're s ION comfortably seated.
The Oldest doctor pre- ent, wuose veneer
able, but handsome fare, told Of a noble
u1nd and nigh cha acter WIS Prof
Thomas NJ. Markoe, who, for fifty yea 8.
has been one or Americas most famous sur
geons. Near by was Weir, toe hero of the
me1ical students, and soon Bull himself
entered tho room.
1t was not little surprising to note that
the audience prescott was not entirely con-
tined to tie masculine gender. There was
falr sprlrking OF lady medical students
and doctresses.
The trained nurses brought pans full of
steaming antiseptic solution Into each
pan the head nurse dropped a celluloid
medal bearing the sign a." $50" or
5000. etc, indicating the strength of the
solution.
AT last the surgeon, D.. Bull, walked to
the table and asked that the patient be
brought in. lie taan proceeded to give
some details and remarks on the case.
"Seve al months ago." SAIL the slrCeon,
THE patient applied 20 me for treatment of
what he called hnarse9ess and pain in the
t.'roat AID ~indpipe. Examination showed
the iarnyS to be t! e seat of several nodular
wart-like eXcreserces and highly iufalned
The Gtlent Is a man OF IS years OF age,
aud the possibility of CO car at DC, occurred
to my mind.
These "arty Growths were treated with
c2ustics. The patient i'm proved greatly for
several weeks; SO g,e ltiy, Indeed, tlat a
cure seemed on.y matter o days. and he
returned TO his home. Six weeks ago the
patient returned; his throat was in q worse
c3ndiJioA than before. Ca, eful exaInina-
ton shoHod that new growths of a cancer
Gus nature had broken out
II now caIlei several throat S7eciaiist,
into cons>l aim, ead after most thorough
discussion Of the at.entj caauces the opee-
alton OF removing the JarJ1x vas unani-
mously gree, TO offer him MS ONLY hop, of
life, and 10 b. the BIS If nor :1e oily, pos
siole line of treat neat. The ofo-e the pa
Ii ut vas advised 10 set bis hou,e in order. ;
ard to submit TO an operation for the
entire removal OF his larvny and as much
of the windp,pe as shoul1 be found diseased.
N"he bravely decided to sub lit to this
measure, and Is now alb u TO be brought
be lore YOU Oi course we can o. ab soiutety
promise that the removal OF tbs larynx will
cure him. or that he will survive the irl1ne-
date effects OF the knife"
The potent was now brought in by two
orderics on u wheeling stretcner. A young
doctor came with him, holdng the ether
cone over bis mouth and nose.
AS soon as he became unc onscious. trache-
otomy was performed very low down, so
that the tube entered the windpipe below
and behind the Sternum. The patient no v
breathed through the tube.
An incisiou was now made from beneath
the chin in toe center line along down the
leCh over the larynX ana %lndDlDe. The
hesh on both sides of the incision was dis
sec;ed away So that tile larynx was exposed
to view. All bleeding points were next
Gated and vessels tic before opening into
tle lorynx. which was done hy carefully
made incisian just below the hyoid bone
(the bone at the root of the tonguel 10 which
the organ Is attached above The surgeon
grasped the larynx. thus free above. and
with delicate little cuts freed it from the
gullst.
In spite of every precaution great deal
OF blood was lost At CHS stage OF the opcra-
ton, and the patieut owed symptoms of
collapse Rls breathing became so bad
that the surgeon had to stop and give him
alroplae and whisky hypodermica!ly AMI
wait until ne had baen resuSciateI. When
the operation was resumed an incision was
made across the wirdpipe, telow the cri
lid cartilese. and the entire iarynx and
part of the windpipe removed. To find
All the cut arteries and bleeding points
and ston their bleeding required over AN
hopr. W6en that was done, tue CAVITY
from "hich the orgaas had been removed
was washed end stllfe! full OF iodoforn
gauze, and al but two inches of the exser-