. 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 . loth for protection. After chloroforming, the patient X-RAY IN LOCATION OF FOREIGN BODIES 369 was placed on this improvised table, with the head well over theend. The esophagoscope was introduced and pushed well down tothe coin. The x-ray tube was quickly brought to the patients side,and an assistant was asked to operate the fluoroscope from the oppo-site side of the table, where he could determine the position of theesophagoscope
. 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 . loth for protection. After chloroforming, the patient X-RAY IN LOCATION OF FOREIGN BODIES 369 was placed on this improvised table, with the head well over theend. The esophagoscope was introduced and pushed well down tothe coin. The x-ray tube was quickly brought to the patients side,and an assistant was asked to operate the fluoroscope from the oppo-site side of the table, where he could determine the position of theesophagoscope with relation to the coin. In this case, as well as allothers that have been examined since, it has been found difficult toprevent the lip of the esophagoscope from going posterior to thecoin. When the lip of the esophagoscope passes in front of the coin,it is usually readily seen by the aid of the electric light in theinstrument, unless covered with a great deal of mucus, when it maybe reached with the forceps and quickly removed. Fig. 189 illustrates diagrammatically the method that the authorhas been using with perfect success in every case, save one. The. Fig. 190.—Location of foreign bodies. Brass check removed from esophagus of girl 3 yearsold. case in which failure occurred was that of a child which had at-tempted to swallow a quarter five mouths before. The coin hadeither worked its way through the esophagus or was covered withgranulations. It was not possible to see the coin with the esophago-scope, and for this reason the search was abandoned for the time,but the case never returned. Fig. 190 is an illustration of a brass check that was removed, bythe method shown in Fig. 189, from the esophagus of a little girl3 years old. The check had been in the esophagus seven days,and the mother had visited almost every physician in the city inher frantic effort to have something done for the child. She wastold by some to let it alone and it would pass all right, by others tha
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