Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-06
MAN WITH PIGS LUNG
WONDERFUL STORY OF SURGERY Pc
LATED BY A DRUMMER.
The Second Remarkable Operation Per-
formed by His Two Doctor Friends.
Trouble Ensued When This Latest Pa
tient Tried to Sing In Church.

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 Il diseased stomach
from a patient and grated into its place
the stomach of a sheep, and how the pa
tieDt 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 ut the Hotel Cadillac, the
drummer related another marvellous feat
of surgical skill performed by the two doc
tors.
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
healthy young pigs and kept them careful.
| ly on clean food, with clean bed and all
surroundings good enough for human be-
ing. This was done in order thai the lungs
or whatever part was 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 rot so
badly affected. II they could graft the
| lung Of Il 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 ques-
ton of life and death with him anyhow,
and the disease would take him away very
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| They had two operating tables and
placed him on one and pig Oh the other
Then they choroformed 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 and see how he would
get along in the world with only one lung
1T was "A 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 ii was no use trying to
save him by putting in lung.
But it wouldn't do TO let the man die
on the table with his chest all open. So
| they resolved TO make a desperate effort to
save him. They split his throat open and
cut of the bronchial tube. In less than 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 hard struggle for life, but
the incisions gradually healed, and the
new lung got down to business so that in a
few weeks it worke ed all right.
"In 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 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 bust
ness was healed sound and well, and be be-
gan TO make an effort to speak. 1t wasn't
| a success.
He could only squeal. Every effort to
| utter a word resulted only in the language
hog uses when it tries to express it's de-
sire for grub. The windpipe wasn't built
| for talking human language, and 1t would
not do 1t. But the fellow was full Of pluck,
although part of it was hogs pluck, and
| he determined TO talk or die. He knew he
had human CLOTHS and larynx and all the
other apparatus, and he kept trying until
| he got SO he could speak 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 20
home. The whole operation was kept
| secret from his friends, and although they
knew that he had been treated and was a
| good deal better, no one outside of two or
three of the most intimate friends of the
doctor knew that he was wearing pigs
lung He had been considerable Of singer
before he was 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 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 fount of every
blessing 1t was the first time that he had
been in church for more than year, and
the song reused him so much that he
couldn't resist the desire to join in the
chorus. And he did join in with venge-
ance. If you ever heard a healthy porker
fast in rail fence, you can form some idea
of the kind OF noise he made. The minis
ter turned pale, the soprano tainted, and
the rest of the choir stopped still, and he
performed solo the like of which was
never heard in 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 did
not know what he was about, and kept up
q 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
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 he stops his
mouth with hs ndkerchief while the sing
ing is going on"
"What about the pgS" asked a New
York drummer. Ibid it live with only one
lung"
Hardly. IL couldn't get along without