. Annals of surgery. Modified Wells bullet forceps in telephonic circuit, grasping the foreign body. Fig. Modified Wells bullet forceps, prongs partly open. Fig. 4. Lead pencil cap removed from bronchus. FOREIGN BODIES IN A BRONCHUS. 773 well, he again applied for admission to the hospital three and ahalf years later (October 3, 1895, Hospital Case No. 6281) withthe same story of having swallowed the tube. On this occa-sion, however, he was awake when the accident occurred, and wasstooping over washing his face when he felt the tube detachitself from the cannula. There was a momentary sens


. Annals of surgery. Modified Wells bullet forceps in telephonic circuit, grasping the foreign body. Fig. Modified Wells bullet forceps, prongs partly open. Fig. 4. Lead pencil cap removed from bronchus. FOREIGN BODIES IN A BRONCHUS. 773 well, he again applied for admission to the hospital three and ahalf years later (October 3, 1895, Hospital Case No. 6281) withthe same story of having swallowed the tube. On this occa-sion, however, he was awake when the accident occurred, and wasstooping over washing his face when he felt the tube detachitself from the cannula. There was a momentary sense as ofsomething slipping down, but that was all. The same steps were taken to identify and recover the tubeas on the first occasion, and with the same success. When dis-charged from the hospital on this occasion he was provided witha hard rubber tube, since which time he seem^s to have had nofurther trouble. Case II.—German Hospital, Brooklyn, Hospital Case W. M., age eleven, school boy, admitted November 6,1905. Six days before admission, while sucking a metal pencilcap the latter slipped pa


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