St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-14
sEELY's JAWS LOCKED.
A Hot Liner Knocks Him Out of
the Game for Four Years.

A Hot Liner Knocks Him Out of
the Game for Four Years.
Philadelphia Record.
Through blow on the jaw from
base ball. William II. Seely suffered
lockiaw for year. and he was only re-
lieved by clever operation performed
at the Pennsylvania hospital in April
last. He is now as we'll as ever he was
in his life, and he can masticate tough
beefSteak and bareback as well as any
man who has never had his Jaws un-
hinged and artificial joints inserted.
Seely is twenty-nine years or age, and
he has been a bali player for nine years.
He has played with Bowdoin college,
Portland, Me-, Toronto, and lastly with
the Kansas City team. 1t was in 1856
that Seely was the ShOrtstop for the
Cowboys, and at the opening of the sea-
son he was playing in an exhibition
match at Detroit against the local team,
May 81.
During the play hot liner from the
bat struck Shortstop Seely on the right
cheek and rendered him unconscious.
1t was two hours before he came to his
senses, and then he felt no ill-effects
from the blow. Gradually, however,
numbness came over his jaw, which be-
gan to stiffen, and rheumatic paralysis
supervened, until at last his teeth were
tightly closed, and he had an acute case
of anchylosiS or lockjaw.
Seely suffered in silence. He could
talk, but could only take liquid nourish-
ment, and he managed SO to conceal his
infirmity that nobody but his closest
friends knew of bis infliction. Last
spring Dr.. Abbey, of New York, found
the man out, and after much persuasion
he performed an operation on the right
side, where the ball struck. This gave
Seely temporary relief for three weeks,
but gradually the muscles again stiff
ened, and his jaw was locked tighter
than ever.
The man drifted to Philadelphia. and
IN April last he was taken to the Penn
sy1vania hospital suffering from a Sc
we're attack of pneumonia. Upon arriv-
ing in the ward the physician said, sPut
out your tongue" but the man said,
''That is impossible" At last he re-
luctantly confessed that he was lock-
jawed. As soon as he had recovered
from his pneumonia the doctors at once
set to work and persuaded him to UNDER
go an operation, saying they would cure
him if he would risk the ordeal.
On April IA the operation was per-
formed by the surgeon, assisted by
on each side of the face parallel to the
Zygoma, to the lobe of the ear down the
ramus, turning all the tissues down.
Then on the right side of the hinge of
the jawbOne small trephine was ap-
piled just below the neck to the jaw
bone. After the button had been re-
moved half an inch of the ramus was
taken away with chisel. On the left
side the same thing was done and
third of an inch of the bone was re-
moved with chain saw, and the at
tachments of the temporal muscles cut.
The jaw was then forced open three
quarters of an inch and an India rub
Der wedge inserted in the mouth. The
technical term of the case is ssanchy-
losis of maxillary, temporal articula-
tionN
Seely was in bed ten days, lowering
between life and death, but in four
weeks he was about and could eat as
well as any man. 1t does not hurt him