Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — Curious Case. [ARTICLE]

Curious Case.

A class of medical students in Buffalo, N. Y., haa had the good fortune to see a very rare case in which the action of the vocal cords in the interior of the larynx could be studied in the living subject. The subject himself may be considered fortunate in that he lives , even with a cut throat. The story is, that in crossing mountains in Roumania he, with others, was attacked by robbersi. His throat was cut, but they only severed the windpipe without cutting the important blood vessels, and, as he showed signs of life, he was hanged. Inasmuch, however, as the windpipe had already been cut across, he was able to breathe in spite of hanging, and thus he was saved from death by hanging by the fact that his throat had already been cut. This case reminds us of the laws of grammatical construction of a sentence by which two negatives make an affirmative—the double attempt to kill saving life.—Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. Dib'fkrbxces in faith are inevitable. Men cannot believe alike more than they can look alike or act alike. Their fai h will vafy with their temperament, with their education, with their habits of thought, with the influences around them. Some will be able to believe what others cannot possibly believe. Some will accept readily what others cannot be persuaded to accept.— C. H. Brigham. Evert one can master a grief but he that has it.— Shakspeare