The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . Fig, 3. POISONS IN THE STOMACH. 283 seize it by pressing the catheter upon its blades. This instrument, whichacts on a principle similar to that of the litholabe of Civiale, may prove use-ful where the foreign substance is very far down, and yet of such a nature asshould forbid its being pushed into the stomach by a probang. If the articleto be removed is barbed and sharp-pointed, lik
The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . Fig, 3. POISONS IN THE STOMACH. 283 seize it by pressing the catheter upon its blades. This instrument, whichacts on a principle similar to that of the litholabe of Civiale, may prove use-ful where the foreign substance is very far down, and yet of such a nature asshould forbid its being pushed into the stomach by a probang. If the articleto be removed is barbed and sharp-pointed, like a fish-hook and line, no ex-pedient will probably answer better than that suggested, under similar cir-cumstances, by Brite, of Kentucky, to wit, the slipping of^ a sufficiently largeand perforated bullet over the line and point of the hook, by directing thepatient to swallow the bullet. Removal by the Expansion of a Sponge carried below the ForeignBody.—David Rice has succeeded* in removing a piece of bone of the sizeof a twenty-five cent piece, cut into a triangle, which had lodged in theoesophagus of an old lady, about two inches below the top of the sternum, bythe following ingenious plan. A piece of dry
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