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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    office, were very much pleased with the result. As Patrick was preparing to leave the office I asked him if it was his child, aud the look of indignation he presented at once, also his reply, “Do you suppose I would be the father of a naygur?” was sufficient recompense for the effort made in removing the foreign substance. Case III. In May, 187B, Mr. H., aged 40, was referred to me by Dr. Bates, of Lebanon. While cleaning his teeth he had accidently swallowed a jdate with three teeth in front, one lateral tooth, and one farther back. He suffered considerable discomfort in the uesophagus for twenty-four hour.s, tlie plate evidently lodging therein. He was given dough, in several iiortions, to swallow, then castor oil cpiite freely, and at the end of thirty-six hours be- lieved the foreign sub- stance had ])as.sed into his stomach, from the relief afforded. On the third day he i)a.s.s(*d the plate ]ier rectum. *■'»? 2. Case IV. (August. Is7:i.) Mr. .T. H., a cattle dealer by occupation, had a reputation for being an enormous eater, that is, he would eat a very large meal, and tin n fast for a day or two without any di.scomfort. A story is told about him that while loading his stock on a cattle barge he went into a neighborimr hotel for dinner. The landlord said to him that the meal was not quite ready, but, inasmuch as Mr H. was in great haste, he might go into the dining room and help himself. Roast pig was part of the dinner The landlord was absent from the room for .some little time, and on his return the guest asked him with some earnest- ness, “Landlord, have you any more of tho.se little pigs?” This is but an illustration of his enormf)US appetite at times. Some few years after, while eating at a restaurant, and in great haste, he swallowed a large portion of meat, choking to death before anyone could give him relief. It will be ob- served, (see Pig. 3) that the meat was .some four inches or mre in length, and that ]iart of it lodged in the ce.sophagus