The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-05
florists NEW LARNYX
II is Made of Silver and Gives Sat-
isfactiOn.
HE is A FRISCO DRUMMER
IL Was Put In by Paris Surgeons
In Place of the Original
Orgar. Which Had
Wasted Away.

get hold of him. they can put him 10
rights again. They can make almost
any part of a mans body. and put 1t
In running order. 1t begins to look as
IL they might create a real Franken-
stein before very long. One OF The
strangest things they have done Is the
making Of an artificial iarynx. 1t be-
longs TO a man named Joseph Forst,
who Is stopping at the Stafford house.
Forst is a travelling man employed
by firm in San Francisco, where he
makes his home. He is about 40 years
old. tall. broad-shouldered and robust.
He chews and smokes tobacco, drinks
and does just the same as any ordin-
airy man of sociable disposition. But
he is not an ordinary man himself He
Is one of the very few men in the
world who have silver iarnyxes Any
one listening closely to Forsts voice
might suspect that there was some
thing peculiar about his inside me-
chanism. 1t has a peculiar, metallic
ring. hardly noticeable at first.
About seven years ago Forst found
that there was something the matter
with him. He had been suffering with
a hard cold. which had been accom-
panied by a swelling in his throat. He
had difficulty In speaking which chung
persistentlv to him. He went to one
doctor after another. and they all did
various things to his throat. They
hacked IL with knives, they took out
pieces of flesh. they doctored 1t with
medicine. and when they got through
with him his throat was a good deal
worse than IL had been before. He
wished the doctors had let IL alone.
The trouble grew upon him, and final
ly he went to Paris. He consulted a
distinguished physician and surgeon,
Prof. Louis Pean. son of the Pean WHO
invented the hemastatic forceps. The
professor consulted with other promi-
nent physicians. and they all decided
that the only way to save Forsts life
was TO take out his wlndpipe. which
was wasting away. They put In Its
place a silved tube. The tube had
three branches. Two of them began
at the sides OF the throat. and extend
ed to mis- lungs. The other. the largest
Of the three. went from the middle of
his THROAT TO his stomach. He found
that he could breathe and eat as easi-
ly as ever. and ne was a happy man.
A good idea of what he had endured
and how he felt when the operation
was finished can be had by reading
any OF the stories told by patients In
Advertisements of duack doctors and
patent medicines The food he ate
passed into the big middle pipe. and,
on entering It. dropped with a thud
noise could be heard when he ate
The dropping of each mouthful could
be heard distinctly by those around
him.
A short time later. however. Forst
found that the tubes were grating
against his lungs when he bent over.
causing internal hemorrhages. He al
so discovered that ne could not speak
so easily as at first. and that he was
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Paris doctors. and they held another
consultation They decided to take
out the silver windpipe. and to make
the difficult experiment. which has
seldom in the history OF surgery been
attempted, of putting in a silver lar
ynx. But they told the patient that
he would never be able to speak again.
They cut the throat open and thrust
into Ii a steel bar around which a sill
yer wire was twined. Then they found
that the wire was cutting into the
flesh. They took IL out again and
twined between the silver a wire Of
rubber. This prevented the silver from
injuring the flesh around IL. They
wound the two wires around the bar
again. put them unto his throat, and
pulled out the bar. The ends or the
wires were fastened TO his jaw bones.
The lower part OF his original wind
and again he found himself able 10
talk. hear. breathe and eat with ease.
The silver windplpe was put In In May.
1893 II was replaced by the larynx
in May, 1894. The larynx contracts
and expands almost as a natural one
The flesh has now grown entirely
around 1t.
In Forstis throat there are two long
scars. forming a cross. The one ex-
49, fo fras
inches long. and the other. which Is
perpendicular. is about twice as long
Around these scars large pieces OF
flesh have been grated. The blood
does not circulate through them. and
they are nervelesS The Adams apple
has been cut nearly entirely away.
The only object in the artificial larynx
seems to be to prevent the flesh from
falling back and choking him. The
skin around the scars Is very thin. and
by pressing the fingers against II one
can feel the wire. Forst says that
even II the point OF a pin Is thrust
through the skin he will be a dead man
inside OF five minutes. and he is very
careful about protecting IL. He Is still
able to 20 about the country doing his
work for the firm. but IL takes him
twice as long as the other men. as he
has TO remain indoors during stormy
weather.
He says ne has received scores of
offers from museum proprietors, but
he refuses TO accept any OF them.
when / returned from Paris" he
said yesterday 20 an Expess reporter,
Il received an offer OF 500 a month
for a year to exhibit myself. and al
the end Of the year I was TO receive
$4,000. Blu, / object TO posing as
freak for any sum"
Some doctors in this city have be-
come interested in Forst's case. and
DIR. r. +. Martin OF No. T53 Michigan
street. Is TO exhibit him in his ONCE
10 several practitioners. FOrst has
been in the city a week. he viii
leave tonight.
The only parallel case DIR. Martin
remembers Is that OF a Buffalo man
who was supplied with an ARTIFICIAL