Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — A Curious Case. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Case.

One of the most curious cases of accidents which*have evero ccurred in our city, and the facts of which have just leaked out, occurred on Saturday last, a week, late in the evening. As Mr. Jablecnik, the mail-carrier for the southern part of town, was crossing the railroad track al Thirteenth street, his horse became frightened at a passing train, and dashingup the street threw him at the corner of william and Thirteenth streets. Mr. Jablecnik, in falling, struck violently on his forehead and was taken home very much bruised, it was then noticed that his head was twisted around toward his right shoulder, and could not be moved without pain, but the physician who was called in did not consider any thing serious the matter, and after prescribing for bis general condition, left him. Daring the early part of the week he became worse, and Dr. Chadwick was sent for. A careful examination of of Mr. Jablecnik’s neck, which Was greatly swollen and very painful, led to the conclusion that a partial dislocation of the first two bones of the neck, the atlas and axis, had taken place. The neck was

greatly twisted and very painful, and partial paralysis of the nerves which affect respiration was also found to exist. Fearing to attempt any reduction of the dislocation, which is always a very, dangerous and often a fatal operation, the doctor left him for the night, determined the next day to hold a consultation and put the man under chloroform while the operation was performed. The next morning, when he arrived, he found that the neck had slipped back into its socket during the man’s turning on his pillow. The pressure on the pneumo-gas-trlc nerves, however, had not been taken away, and last evening the patient was still in a very critical condition, owing to the extreme difficulty in respiration, and the filling up of the lungs with serum. The case is a very singular one, indeed, and should the patient recover he may well congratulate himself on his recovery. —Omaha Bu.

We learn from Victor Amy, says the Kern county California, who has recently returned from Delaho, that that place, from one of the deadest and dullest in the southern part of the state, under the influence of a favorable season that has developed the pastoral wealth at the vast plains around it, now can only be likened, in its prevailing appearance of exceptionally prosperous mining camps. This results from the countless bands of sheep that are ranging in the vicinity, the sheepsbearing, the Shipments of wool, and the presence of buyers, speculators, dram, mere, etc., and the money that is profusely scattered by shearers, herder* and others.