Deseret Evening News | 1899-12-18 | Page 4 | Chicago Record

Chicago It has hns beeh bech recently b by competent I authOrities that the doctors In to bleeding were using the only means then known to reduce the obstruction In the larynx by causing n a renewal of at general circulation I It is 19 said that they thay were therefore blame blameless less and that Washington inevitably would have died ot of the tho malady In any event However that may be the gen fact Is that had mod modern cnn ern science been available the fife or of orthe time the first President ml might ht have beeh bech saved flat Dut ono one hundred years ago ngo tracheotomy Wil wits only hr i the tending leading surgeons and then only In dire extremity Te The breathing tube W wits In him vented only fifteen years ago and neith neither er time the laryngoscope nor bacteriology was dreamed ot of by the physicians ot of cne case following the Practice or of time the times was treated wIth bleeding and blisters arid liberal doses ot of antimony Today a similar case would be treated b by tracheotomy or by application ot of Ice and powerful drugs