. American X-ray journal . y of liquids for sevenmonths. She presented a livid appearanceabout the face and neck. With mouthopen, nostrils dilated, head thrown back,and gasping for breath, she presented apitiful picture. The history given to me by her father isas follows: Seven months ago, while shewas playing with an old brass rivet whichI removed from a threshing machine belt,she swallowed it. It has the cap battered sleep, for unconscious as she was duringher sleeping moments, she was unable tomake the necessary effort to keep uprespiration. At present, and in the last week, hermother or my
. American X-ray journal . y of liquids for sevenmonths. She presented a livid appearanceabout the face and neck. With mouthopen, nostrils dilated, head thrown back,and gasping for breath, she presented apitiful picture. The history given to me by her father isas follows: Seven months ago, while shewas playing with an old brass rivet whichI removed from a threshing machine belt,she swallowed it. It has the cap battered sleep, for unconscious as she was duringher sleeping moments, she was unable tomake the necessary effort to keep uprespiration. At present, and in the last week, hermother or myself have watched her everynight, and when she stopped breathing wewould arouse her and with her voluntaryefforts she was enabled to carry on respira-tion Deprived of her rest and nourish-ment, she has grown quite thin. With this history and forlorn hope,promising the father to do my best, I setabout to relieve the little sufferer, and, ifpossible, to restore her to health. I placedthe patient under the x-rays, and with my. Fig. 2. 22-Caliber Ball in the Foot. (Shoe on.) on the butt, so that it looks very much likea spool. She had some difficulty in swal-lowing it, making desperate efforts occa-sionally, and at other times coughing. Thefamily physician was summoned, and, uponexamining, failed to locate the foreignbody, but said, however, in his opinion therivet had passed into the stomach andwould cause no harm. From that time to the present she hashad difficulty in swallowing, graduallygrowing worse. Three months ago shebegan to experience slight difficulty inbreathing, especially at night or in thedaytime when she would lie down for anap. This difficulty also grew worse untilit was dangerous to allow her to go to fluoroscope I searched the stomach andintestines. At a glance I could see, how-ever, that it was not there. Passing fromthe abdominal region up over the thoraxwith my fluoroscope, I could see nothingbut heart, liver, ribs, and backbone until Ireached the cervical reg
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