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Show iSTOK i THHOAT ALMOST tiLLEI III Pebble Kept Moving and Stopped the Breathing of Lad. Howard Xorman Gentry, aged 3 years, whose parents reside near Big Spring, Montgomery county, Mo., near death five times, passing into an apparently ap-parently lifeless stale, was saved by a remarkable bloodless operation performed per-formed here. The periods in which the child's life seemed to lapse were from five to twen-tj' twen-tj' minutes' duration, and recurred ;just so often as a pebble, which ho had swal lowed, was thrown in a. position to cut off his brcatlr. The stone weighed twonty-five grains and is the sizo of an ordinary marble. . T. O. Gentry, tfic' boy's father, is a member of one of the oldest families in Missouri, and after whom the count of Gentry was named. "Norman," said the father, "was pbaying in a sand pile in the rear of the house fifteen days ago. when he accidentally swallowed the stone. After severe coughing ho was laid out as if dead, but. another spell brought symptoms symp-toms of life. He was in this condition sovcral times. During the time when lie could breathe freely the stone was in the left bronchial tube, thus allowing allow-ing air to pass into one of the lungs at least and sustain life. But. when a spell threw it into the windpipe, breathing was completely shut off.-' The father twico restored life by breathing into the bo3's mouth. Xor-mnn Xor-mnn was apparently dead. Life waG kept iu the little body by spra.ying oxygen. An air pump was used to inflate in-flate tho lungs, a long rubber tube being be-ing held in the windpipe. The little chest was Ewclled to almost the bursting burst-ing point, when a surgeon quickly removed re-moved the tube, intending to reverse tho air and draw out; the stone. That was never done, however, for in the ni6h of air the pebble was forced from its position and out through the mouth. |