Monro, Tulpius, Bartholinus, and
Pare report severance of the trachea with the absence of oral
breathing, in which the divided portions were sutured, with
successful results. In his "Theatro Naturae," Bodinus says that
William, Prince of Orange, lost the sense of taste after
receiving a wound of the larynx; according to an old authority, a
French soldier became mute after a similar accident.
Davies-Colley mentions a boy of eighteen who fell on a stick
about the thickness of the index finger, transfixing his neck
from right to left; he walked to a doctor's house, 250 yards
away, with the stick in situ. In about two weeks he was
discharged completely well. During treatment he had no hemorrhage
of any importance, and his voice was not affected, but for a
while he had slight dysphagia.
Barker gives a full account of a barber who was admitted to a
hospital two and a half hours after cutting his throat. He had a
deep wound running transversely across the neck, from one angle
of the jaw to the other, cutting open the floor of the mouth and
extending from the inner border of the sternocleido-mastoid to
the other, leaving the large vessels of the neck untouched. The
razor had passed through the glosso-epiglottidean fold, a tip of
the epiglottis, and through the pharynx down to the spinal
column.
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