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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tion has grown less, and ontwo occasions the sputum contained black,crummy masses. The patient complains ofan inky taste in the mouth after coughing.The doctor had urged a roentgen ray ex-amination of the chest, but the patientdelayed until the pain in the chest becameannoying. Roentgen ray examination at GeisingerHospital, Danville, Pa., July 17, 1918,revealed the staple. My Roentgen Ray Report.—July 20,1918. (Fig. 7.) Carpet staple in the left main bronchus.Apparent width of spread between pointsis approximately correct. Length of thetwo arms is slightly foreshortened. Result-ing patholog%- not apparent. The foreign body was removed by oralbronchoscopy, July 22, 191S, by Dr.Jackson. Case X.—W. J. A., male. New Mexico.Age, 22 months. Unsuspected Foreign Body a Cause of Chronic Bronchitis 117 Present Illness.—On May 17, 1918,while the patient was playing in the j^ardhis mother heard him choking and strang-ling. She thought he had swallowed some-thing and held him upside down and
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Fig. 7. provoked vomiting by passing her fingerdown his throat. He coughed for about anhour. He complained of pain in the regionof the larynx and the respiration increasedin rate and became labored and wheezing;the nostrils became pinched and greatcyanosis developed. Doctors were consultedand advised immediate hospital treatment.The patient was taken to a New Mexicohospital, where the doctor examined thepatient and passed a forceps, the ends ofwhich were wound with cotton, down thethroat. This procedure seemed to relievethe pain in the throat, but the dyspneacontinued. The doctor did not think aforeign body was present. A roentgen ray examination was proposed, but during thechilds four days sta)^ in the hospital thiswas not done. The mother became impa-tient and took him to St. Louis where Dr.Belton made a roentgenograph and re-ported the presence of a tack in the rightbronchus at the level of the sixth rib. Onthe arrival in St. Louis the dyspnea grad-ually subsided. A bronchoscopy wa

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