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Show Penknife Used to Sae Life Man Choking to Death Is Relieved Re-lieved by the Quick Action of Hospital Surgeon. New Orleans. A taxicab stopped before be-fore the doors of the Hotel Dieu (hospital). (hos-pital). A young man carried an older man up the steins of the building In his arms. "Quick !" the young man shouted, i "He's choking to death." S A nurse ran Into the hall. "Put him down there," she said, indicating in-dicating a small room just inside the uoor. "He's dying. It's only a matter f seconds." Dr. Joseph Danna, noted New Orleans Or-leans surgeon, wearing his hat and t-oat, had just finished his work at the hospital and was leaving at that moment. mo-ment. As he passed near by the young man recognized him. Doctor Ready to Help. "Oh, doctor, can't you help?" "Certainly," the doctor replied. Without a moment's hesitation there was no time to send for instruments instru-ments on the floor above the surgeon pulled his penknife from his pocket and slit the throat of the dying man. The nurse came running back with a tube, which the doctor Inserted In the man's throat, and held the side of the Incision together with blood-stained fingers. fin-gers. Slowly color returned to the checks and the pulse began to beat freely. Doctor Dannn turned to the son, who had watched the unusual operation, and said, "He'll live." After the organs began to function normally the tube was removed and the Incision stitched. Merchant Is Sufferer. The operation had taken less than one minute; longer probably would have meant death, the surgeon asserted. as-serted. It was performed on K. Kou-gelot, Kou-gelot, a New Orleans dry goods merchant. mer-chant. Mr. Kougelot complained of strangulation stran-gulation earlier in the day. Simple remedies had no effect, and he was put Into an automobile by his son and rushed to the hospital. He became suddenly worse and before the Institution Insti-tution was reached he had ceased to breathe and his pulse had stopped, the son said. Similar operations upon the tbrriat, known as tracheotomy, have been performed per-formed many times by Doctor Danna, but this was his first with a pocket-knife. |