Show A SINGULAR CASE A case has been brought to the attention of the medical p profession ra in louisville ky As it is an ing instance ta uce of r recovery ec overy by unusual means from the effects of aca accidental dental poisoning by concentrated lye it may have a special I 1 interest to some of our readers accidents of the same nature h have aa e blensa been sadly adly too to common in this territory the patient kate kendall kendal eight years of age has not swallowed a mouthful of food for over eight months and yb vt is reported to be not only alive but doing well early i last august the child swallowed ft large dose of cor concentrated lat rated lye and in a f few ew days she was unable to retain in her stomach her throat grew smaller and she found it very hard work to breathe her p physicians gave her the customary antidotes for lye but they failed of effect and the child grew worse she was now unable to swallow even water or milk and the indications were that she would starve to death through an inability to force sufficient nourishment mat into her stomach the entrance to that organ was completely closed and when in november noveme the physicians in the case endeavored to open the passage they ethey were unable to force even their most delicately pointed instruments through for wee weeks ksevery every breath the child drew was expected to be her last laet and she grew so thin that she was literally nothing but elfein and bones at last it w was a s decided to attempt as a dernier resort one of the ahe most mast delicate operations known nd possibly the only ane one which ev even en prolong if not save the childre life Chloroform chloroforming Chloro forming liag the child the physicians made an incision through the abdominal wall to the left of and above the navel the nap flap could be thrown back leaving t the he stomach proper to view they then drew that organ as for to the exterior of its cavity as poa t bible and a small incision by tho the means of silken cords was mate after which the stomach was I 1 re turned to its resting place when it had bad about healed from the lu in casion made through it a small bit of rubber tubing twenty four inches 1 in length and one eighth of an ail idich inc in diameter wai was inserted and all of j the incision sa save just ejust enough to d mit of the passage of the tub lub 04 ing closed by delicate j the child was then allowed to ret cover from the effects of the AMA thetla and in a few hours some tepid milk was forced through the tubing y 7 into the stomach almost immedi n abely the physicians observed ft change for the better and was permitted permit teJ to take all the efah Z milk she desired she would ta a mouthful and placing the tu v her mouth would force the milk f into her stomach bread and ma were cut up for her soaked in mia placed in a piece of eh cheese do and she would suek suck this until sho had a mouthful when it would t be forced into her stomach as was the milk inthis in this way since the operation ope ratio F V she has nourished herself so that she at 1 fairnot only increased in weight weigh from twenty one pounds to flav three pounds but she go goes ea to school daily and to all appearance 00 ty to so aa healthy as the average child S i gullet is still closed but th the r one wears her rubber tube constant ly one end around her neck ind and the other through the hole in her herardo abdo men into the stomach and 16 fot 06 4 r in her condition 19 said to be happ happy hi t |