Case of foreign body in the air-passages / by James Struthers, M.D.

  • Struthers, James.
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[1852]
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Credit: Case of foreign body in the air-passages / by James Struthers, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE OF FOREIGN BODY IN THE AIR-PASSAGES. BY JAMES STRUTHERS, M.D., LEITU. [from the monthly journal of AIEDICAL SCIENCE FOR NOVEMBEa 1852.] ILn October 1844, Thomas Neal, a footman, set. 22, while eating pai*t ){ a fowl, and laughing at the same time, was suddenly seized with i I violent fit of coughing, and a feeling of suftbcation; he became olue in the face, felt a sharp pain in the chest, and was sensible of lart of his food having entered the windpipe. These symptoms sub- nded in about half an hour, and never retvumed. An emetic was iidministered, and acted fi'eely; and both fluids and sohds were swal- owed without difficulty. From about an hour after the accident a ickling cough, with a wheeze in tlie throat, continued to trouble lim occasionally, but gave httle inconvenience; and he went about lis work as usual, as if nothing had happened. He stiU, however, \vas impressed with the conviction that there was something in his vindpipe, and pointed to a spot a little to the right of the u^ijier part t)f the sternum, saying that he felt it there. About three months after the accident, the cough began to he iccompanied by the expectoration of white frothy sputa, wliich, vithout any other change in the symptoms, gradually increased in pantity diuing the ensuing twelve months. At the end ctf that ime he was seen on several occasions by Sir Benjamin Brodie, and jntered St George's Hospital, London, where he remained for a brtnight, and was then advised to go to the coimtry. About a nonth aftenvards he, for the first time, observed the sputa to be 'inged with blood, and to have a foBtid odom-. Diuing the two fol- owing years the cough was more frequent, the expectoration very )rofuse, and the quantity of blood in the sputa gi'adually inci'ca^ed, ' F.DINHimOH : SUTHERLAND AND KNOX.