An Extraordanary Case

A soldier in Sherman’s army with throat cut from ear to ear, was thought to be mortally wounded by a council of surgeons: but the one under whose immediate care he was, thought he was justified in making an experiment for the good of others at the same time having great hopes of saving the man. He first commenced his task but cutting through where the two upper ribs meet the sternum and through this orifice for forty days he has been fed five gallons of milk per week, and sometimes his appetite required five per day. He is fat and hearty, and the surgeon thinks in two weeks he will have him able, and the inside of his throat so nearly healed, as to allow him to swallow by the natural passage. He at first introduced a stomach pump, and thus fed his patient, and after a few hours would clear his stomach in the same manner, thus producing artificial digestion, till it was no longer necessary. A silver tube is now used to feed him. – {Louisville Journal.

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Friday, December 30, 1864