The evening world., 1891-04-29

Never before In their long experience have
these medical exper's been confronted by a
problem 30 difflcult o solution.
The operation OF cutting through the cnest
covering and into lung Ia not unknown, but
It Is an extremely dtfcuit and dangerous
operation, and there is the peculiar difiicul,y
that the surgeons are unable to exactly locate
the cork, and thus decide accurately where to
make the necessary incision in order to reach
II.
Falling TO reach the foreign substance, an
other operation would be necessary, and the
esult Is entirely probiematical, even In the
case OF patient unusually robust, well nour
isned and full OF vitality.
On the other hand, II Is plain that that miser-
able cork must be removed from the reverend
geutleman's lung. II permitted to remain 1t
must surely set up an iunammation, and that
is pneumonia, and pneumonia that cannot be
cureh.
Supt. Dudley, OF the Brooklyn Hospital. says
| that DR.. Boutwell, not only breaihes quite freely
when in q lying position. but Is aule to talk a
little.
| This indicates beyond question that the cork
Is not still 10 the passage to the lungs, nor In
| either branch, but that IL has passed out into
the left lung itself.
| This renders entirely impracticable the pro.
posed extraction OF the cork by the introduc.
tion of tiny corkscrew encased In flexible
rubber catheter.
| There will re an operation of some sort per.
formed by DR.. Rushmore to-day or tomorrow,
but the surgeon positively refuses to say what
he pro- oses to do.
| In The mean time, the s50-pound, broad
i 49, - ftN.
| tional Cndrch OF the Covenant, true to hli
plucky nature, Ii reading up on his own case,
| and ~ becoming quite interested in 1t bs dt
| tnvestiY atinR scientIBt.
His good vile, VINO is nearly prostrated by
the suspense AMI anxiety under which she ha'
laoored for ten days. visits Dr. Boutwell, every
| dav with her sister.
| They converse by means OF pencil and paper.
ant the doc' or cheers up his devoted spouse al
much AS ne Can.
This anomalous case has called forth q dis
stances. anu the general opinion Il not at al
encouraging for Dr. boutwell,
There nave been many caAes in which per
soma have got Kernel OF corn IN the windpipe,
anu In every case the result has been fatal.
DR.. Boutwell, owes 1t 10 his glgantic Duiit
and tiemendous will power and vitality tina
dea'h on that Saturday afternoon when h,
drew that cork iu with his hearty Iauuh.
Only yesterday Micnael Durkln, OF 40 Baltic
street, Brooklyn, a sturdy Dlacksmlth, died II
fearful agony at the breakfast table from su
| focation ciused by inhalin. bit OF tried trip,
| Wlile In coughing it,
County Physician A. Warner Shepard, o
BrooeIyn, recalls six fatal cases of inhala
ton. in which he performed the autopsy.
One wdB that Of young man who had in
hailed an ordinary wooden tODthpick. Tn
patient lived for months, wasting dway will
consumption, and the autopsy revealed tn
toOthpick In the lung below the second Lifur
cation.
A child inhaled a toy pencil Of gold and die
of pneumonia several weeks afterwards, III
pneumo onia being bu, the Inflammation cause
by the presence of the pencil IN the lungs.
| Another fatal case Of the KIND was that OF
woman whO IN u 1T of sooling over som
poignant grief, dislodged false tooth au
sucked 1t into her bronchial tubes.
| There have been other cases. however. Il
which n foreign substance loIgei IN the lun g
has after time brcome covered by mem
brane and remained there imb sdded Harmless
for years.
But no one ever got cork IN his lung before
and the whole world IS watching with profes
slonai interest the progress OF Or. Bothweli'
case.
Al !. 80 this afternoon no operation had bee
performed or undertaken on DR.. Boutwell,.