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) (14570740907)

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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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reit 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 allowed toenter the trachea. Some time afterward the boy became sick, hadfever, and developed a cough, with a muco-purulent expectora-tion, accompanied by a continuous loss of flesh until he was, at thetime he was seen, very much emaciated and confined to the bed.

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Fig. 192.—Location of foreign bodies. Metal screw shown in bronchus. He had been treated by a number of physicians, who had diagnosedhis condition as malaria, typhoid fever, etc. No one believed thatthe screw story had anything to do with his condition, and there-fore no attention was paid to it. Some time before he was broughtto the laboratory there had been a diagnosis of abscess in the rightlung. A rib was resected and the cavity drained. For a time there 372 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY was some improvement, but the main symptoms remained about thesame. The case finally came into the hands of Doctor W. W.Samuell, who, giving some credence to the screw story, sent theboy to the laboratory for a skiagraph. Fig. 192 shows the shadowof a foreign body in the region of the right bronchus. Owing tothe great length of time it had been in the lung, it was not thoughtpossible to remove it through the mouth. Doctor J. 0. McReynoldswas called into the case, and, after so

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