The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-11-01
man WITH 4 PICS LUNG
Wonderful Story Of the Posslblli-
ties Of Surgery Told by q
Drummer
The Second Remarkable Operation
Performed by His Two
Doctor Friends.
Patient Tried to Stag In the
Church Choir,

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Patient Trisd to Sing In the
Church Choir,
The Chicago drummer who tells the
wonderful surgery stories was in town
again last week. Two years ago he re-
lated how two doctor friends Of his had
successfully removed a diseased stomach
from a patient and grated into Its place
the stomach Of a sheep, and how the pa
tient became perfectly healthy, but had to
subsist on grass In summer and hay and
bran mash In the winter.
Cozily seated In one Of the big leather
covered chairs at the Hotel Cadillac, the
drummer related another marvellous feat
Of surgical skill performed by the two doc
tors. IL
Ever since they performed the operation
with the stomach" he began, 'they have
awaited an opportunity to try a similar ex-
pertinent with a lung. They procured three
ly on clean food, with a clean bed and oil
surroundings good enough for a human be-
ing. This was done in order that the lungs
or whatever part wss to be used In grating
should be perfectly sound and healthy.
You never saw such pigs in your life. They
were as nice and dainty as any dude and
knew about as much as some Of them.
When the pigs were about a year old, the
doctors had a patient with lung disease on
whom they decided to try the operation.
Careful examination showed that one lung
was entirely gone, but the other was not SO
badly affected. If they could graft the
lung Of u pig into him, he could breathe
with his other one while the operation was
being performed and the connections were
healing together. He knew it was q ques-
ton Of life and death with him anyhow,
and the disease would take him away very
soon, so he decided to let them try it.
They had two operating tables and
placed him on one and a pig on the other.
Then they chloroformed them both, and
one worked on the patient while the other
cut into the pig. They handled one about
as carefully as the other, as they wanted to
save the pig alive M see how he would
get along in the world with only one lung.
1T was Il good deal more difficult opera
ton to get at his lungs than it was to get
at the other mans stomach. When they
got him opened and made an examination,
they found that the bronchial tube was so
badly diseased that 1t was no use trying to
save him by putting in a lung. III,
but it wouldn't do to let the mar die
on the table with his chest all open. So
they resolved to make a desperate effort to
ave him. They split his throat open and
cut off the bronchial tube. In less thar 20
minutes the lung of the pig was taken out,
with the bronchial tube attached, and the
whole concern was put into the man, and
the connections were soon made. The
openings in his throat and chest were then
closed up and the edges sewed together, and
the patient was placed in bed. As he came
out from under the influence of chloroform
they administered opiates to keep him quiet,
and he seemed to breathe without much
effort. He had a hard struggle for life, but
the missions gradually healed, and the
new lung got down to business so that in a
few weeks 1t worked all right.
I'm two months he was able to sit up in
bed, and in another month he could walk
across the room. But he never in all that
time spoke a word. His breathing appara-
tus was very tender and sore, and he didn't
feel like using it any more than he had to,
but in about six months the whole BUSH
ness was healed sound and well, and he be-
gan to make an effort to speak. 1t wasn't
a success. d.. -~.r ..- .---
HE could only squeal. Every effort to
utter a word resulted only in the language
a hog uses when it tries to express its de-
sire for grub. The windpipe wasn't built
for talking human language, and it would
not do it. But the fellow was full of pluck,
although part of it was a hogs pluck, and
he determined to talk or die. He knew he
had a human CLOTHS and larynx and all the
other apparatus, and he kept trying until
he got SO he could speak a few syllables,
but it was hard work and slow business.
The fellow lived out in the suburbs, and
after he had become able to walk about and
take care of himself the doctors let him go
home. The whole operation was kept a
secret from his friends, n although they
knew that he had been treated and was u
good deal better, no one outside of two or
three of the most intimate friends Of the
doctor knew that he was wearing q pigs
lung. He had been considerable of q singer
before he vas taken sick, and in fact led
the singing in church. He was great on
some of the stirring revival songs. That
was what got him into trouble and gave
the whole thing away.
"He went out for a walk one Sunday
and entered a church where service was
just beginning. The usher seated him
about the middle Of the church, and he
hadn't more than sat down when the choir
began singing, Come, thou OF every
blessing 1t was the first time that he had
been in church for more than a year, and
the song reused him 80 much that he
couldn't resist the desire to join in the
chorus. And he did join in with venge-
ance. II you ever heard a healthy porker
fast in a rail fence, you can form some idea
of the kind of a noise he made. The minis,
ter turned pale, the soprano tainted, and
the rest Of the choir stopped still, and he
performed a solo the like Of which was
never heard in q church before. "
Everybody turned and stared at him,
and the usher came and marched him out
BY that time he was SO excited that he die
not know what he was about, and kept VI
a continual squealing as he tried to talk
and explain matters. just then a police
man came along and walked him off, but
before they got to the station one of the
doctors happened to be passing by in q
buggy and persuaded the officer to let him
20. He is getting so he can talk now with
out squealing. except when he gets excited
but when he goes to church be stops his
mouth with q handkerchief while the sing
ing is going on"
"What about the pig?" asked a New
York drummer. ibid it live with only one