Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy - with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray (1912) (14570546518)

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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947

Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures

Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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had visited almost every physician in the city inher frantic effort to have something done for the child. She wastold by some to let it alone and it would pass all right, by others thatthey could push it down into the stomach, and by others that itwould be dangerous to attempt to remove it through the mouth. Foreign Bodies in the Trachea and Bronchi.—Foreign bodies in 370 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY the trachea and bronchi present far greater difficulties than thosetaken into the esophagus. Contrary to popular belief, foreignbodies may be carried into the trachea and on down into a bronchuswithout causing any very marked symptoms. The author has seentwo cases in children and one in adult in which metallic objectswere carried in the right bronchus for months without the personsknowing that they were there until skiagraphs were made. Thefirst of these cases was a child about 6 years old with symptomsof a foreign body in the right bronchus. Fig. 191 is a skiagraph

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Fig 191.—Location of foreign bodies. Nail shown in the trachea. of the childs chest, confirming the diagnosis previously made bythe family physician. That was several years ago, when there wereno Jackson instruments. The child was taken to a large city, whereit was seen by several physicians of large experience. They advisedthe father to return home with the child, which he did. Some timeafter his return the child was afflicted with traumatic pneumonia,and in a paroxysm of coughing the nail, thoroughly enveloped ina tough mucus, was expelled, and the child promptly recovered.This occurred three months from the time the nail entered thetrachea. The most interesting case of foreign body in the bronchus wasthat of a boy 8 years old. About five months before he was seenhe was playing with a screw 1/4 inches long. He put the screw X-RAY IN LOCATION OF FOREIGN BODIES 371 in his mouth during a playful scuffle with his mother. The screwdisappeared, and no one imagined that it had been allow

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