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.

There was little hemorrhage, but the man could neither swallow nor speak.

The wound was sutured, tracheotomy done, and the head kept fixed on the chest by a copper splint.