. The alimentary tract : a radiographic study . Fig- 13- Fig. 14. Fig. 11. Marked obstruction at the cardiac orifice showing theopaque food displacing some retained food at the lower end. The leakage from this case was very slow and the patient had learnedto use the oesophagus for storage purposes. He suffered no discom-fort from the large quantity shown in the figure. Fig. 12. Cardiospasm in a boy aged 15. The onset was withoutwarning and absolutely sudden when eating some food on his wa3^home from school. vSince then he had vomited almost all the food hehad taken and the condition had persis
. The alimentary tract : a radiographic study . Fig- 13- Fig. 14. Fig. 11. Marked obstruction at the cardiac orifice showing theopaque food displacing some retained food at the lower end. The leakage from this case was very slow and the patient had learnedto use the oesophagus for storage purposes. He suffered no discom-fort from the large quantity shown in the figure. Fig. 12. Cardiospasm in a boy aged 15. The onset was withoutwarning and absolutely sudden when eating some food on his wa3^home from school. vSince then he had vomited almost all the food hehad taken and the condition had persisted without intermission for6 years—he was 9 years old when the trouble began—and he is nowextremely emaciated. Six hours after the food had been given theshadow was still in the oesophagus, in spite of vomiting whichapparently removed onty the excess that the oesophagus would notretain. The food seen passing into the stomach was apparently allthe opaque meal that passed through, , it passed through beforethe spasm came into operation.
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