Foreign bodies in the oesophagus : with report of cases / by Albert Vander Veer.

  • Vander Veer, A. (Albert), 1841-1929.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Foreign bodies in the oesophagus : with report of cases / by Albert Vander Veer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    C iS3 X[I is quite a reinai’kable one. The little fellow was really starving to death and yet the very simple use of the bristle probang relieved I dm promptly. Regarding the operation of cesophagotomy I should be inclined to close the oesojihagus with catgut sutures, and for twenty four hours feed the patient per rectum, then to pass the soft rubber tube through the nostrils, into the •Stomach, and feed in this way. I would keep the wound packed carefully with iodoform gauze, securing drainage in this way, not treating the oesophagus as an open wound, as I believe we will lessen thereby contamination by the swal- lowing of food. It is quite wonderful that stricture of the oesophagus .seldom follows this operation. All of these operations of oesophagotomy were done on the left side of the neck and the foreign sub.stance removed with .short, curved forcejis. In each I used a steel curved sound, introduced it down into the oesophagus, and project- ed a prominent point in that manner. 2^ EhiiIg St.