A case in which a portion of a nut was impacted in the right bronchus and removed by operation / by J. Walker Downie.
- Downie, J. Walker, (James Walker), 1855-1921.
- Date:
- [1893]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A case in which a portion of a nut was impacted in the right bronchus and removed by operation / by J. Walker Downie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![A CASE IN WHICH A PORTION OF A NUT WAS IMPACTED IN THE RIGHT BRONCHUS AND REMOVED BY OPERATION* By J. WALKER DO^V]SIIE, M.B., F.F.P.S.G., Surgeon, Throat and Nose Department, Western Infirmary. Towards the end o£ last session Dr. Hector Cameron made an interesting communication to this Society on Foreign Bodies in the Air-Passages. As that paper aroused considerable interest in the subject, I thought it would not be out of place to here give a brief description of a case which occurred last week. The patient was a boy, 7 years of age, who, while chewing a Brazil nut, laughed at his companion who had begun to eat a decayed one, and, while so laughing, he accidentally inhaled a portion of the nut in his mouth. Dyspnoea at once supervened, but after a few seconds he was able to run to his father's shop, a distance of some 300 yards. There he told his father that a piece of a nut had stuck in his throat, and, as he appeared to breathe with difficulty, his father administered an emetic in the form of a bottle of soda. After vomiting he breathed more freely, was taken home, and put to bed. This was on Monday, 24th November. During the evening and throughout the night he had frequent attacks of cough, accompanied by veiy slight difficulty in breathing. On the following day he complained of pain in the region between the lower angle of the right scapula and the vertebral column. For this he was poulticed by his mother, but as no relief followed the hot applications, and as the cough persisted, he was taken to a doctor. Apparently he looked upon the condition as catarrhal, and prescribed accordingly. On Thursday, the 24th, Dr. James A. Adams * Read at a meeting of the Surgical Section of the Glasgow Medico- Chirurgical Society, 2nd December, 1892.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21457098_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
