A summary of cases where artificial teeth have been swallowed, or have become impacted in the pharynx / compiled, with notes, by Felix Weiss.

  • Weiss, Felix.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879]
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Credit: A summary of cases where artificial teeth have been swallowed, or have become impacted in the pharynx / compiled, with notes, by Felix Weiss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    / * r. Mr. President and Gentlemen, The members of this society will, no doubt, recollect that at the December meeting I brought \ before them, as a casual communication, “ Arti- ficial teeth swallowed or impacted in the pharynx.” In the discussion that followed some remarks were made calculated to lead tlife members to believe that these cases are of such rare occurrence that they are very seldom recorded, but Mr. Thos. Rogers at the following meeting in January stated that he had obtained a list of similar cases from the medical journals, and suggested that an ab- stract be published in the “ Transactions,” as many of the members might like to refer to them, without caring to hear them read in extenso. This suggestion the meeting adopted, and even- tually the matter was left in my hands. I wish this evening, with your permission, to make some observations on the summary I have prepared, and although it is not my intention to read all the cases, I desire to enter more particularly into the general treatment when such accidents occur; and I may here observe that many of the num- bers of the medical journals containing accounts of these c&ses ‘ ' f print, so that it becomes B