Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1906-11-15
Kentucky Man Has a Pair of
leaky Lungs.


most peculiar physical ailment
that has ever come under obser-
walton of physicians in that part
OF the country, and they all claim
that there is nothing like it men,
toned in the books.
To state the matter without
confusing it with learned medi-
cal terms, his difficulty is that
his lungs leak air.
We all know that the process
of breathing is accomplished by
charging the thoracic cavity,
either by drawing the diaphragm
or elevating the ribs, or both,
and that when the space contain
ing the lungs is thus enlarged
the outer air rushes in and fills
them and then, when the lung
space is again decreased in size,
the air is driven ont.
Now, although Mr.. Fumes is,
in every other way a strong
healthy man, there is something
or other the matter with his
lungs so that they do not hold
air perfectly, but let a little of
it leak out through their walls
and into the free space about
them and, when this has pro-
crossed for time, he is unable
to breathe comfortably for the
cavity is not free and the dia-
phragm and chest walls cannot
produce the proper vacuum in it
to induce the air to flow in, and
he feels smothered and Cypress
ed, and if the process were per-
mitted to continue for two or
three days without his obtaining
relief, he would be unable to
breathe and death would soon
ensue.
But there is no danger of this
thing occurring, unless his lungs
should grow much more leaky
than they are now, for medical
science has come to his aid and
arranged method by which he
can temporarily relieve himself
of the difficulty whenever and as
often as is necessary.
Through his back, on the right
side of the spine and close to it,
DR.. Diedrichs made an opening
into the thoracic cavity and in
to this opening he set an eye, OF
thimble of gold, cased over at
the ends, inside and outside, sc
that it cannot move and which
was soon fixed firmly in place by
the healthy growth Of the flesh
around it. The gold lined open.
I
ing leads directly into the lung
space and through it, if desired,
the lungs can be seen at their
work, expanding and contracting
again as the air flows in and out.
A beautiful little hand air.
pump, constructed of silver,
something like a bicycle pump,
only made to work the other way
and draws the air out instead of
driving it in, is carried by Mr.
Fumes in his inside vest pocket
and can be connected, by means
of a rubber tube coming around
his back and under one arm
with the aperture into his lungs
and whenever he feels thai
sense of oppression in his breath
ing that tells him his lungs have
leaked out enough air to inter.
fere with their working, he
reaches his hand in beneath his
coat, takes hold of the air puml
and gives it few pressures and
the air is at once pumped out o
the thoracic cavity, his lungs are
relieved and he goes on breatl
ing again without difficulty.
1t only requires about half |
dozen pumpings out during thu
twenty four hours to keep him
in perfect condition, and al.
though he has to perform at leas
one operation of the kind durinI
the night, there is but littl
trouble in doing it and no dan
ger at all of his forgetting it, 70
the slight sensation Of smother
ing Immediately awakens him