This man had drunk the pea-soup like water of a tank dug
in the side of the hill, rather than go a few hundred yards to a
spring where the water is perfectly clear and pure. Though I have
not met with another case of leeches being taken with drinking
water, I am assured that such cases are occasionally met with
about Agra and other towns in the North-West Provinces. This
great carelessness as to the purity or impurity of their drinking
water shows the difficulty medical officers must experience in
their endeavors to prevent the Sepoys of a regiment from drinking
water from condemned or doubtful sources during a cholera or
typhoid epidemic."
Foreign Bodies in the Pharynx and Esophagus.--Aylesbury mentions
a boy who swallowed a fish-hook while eating gooseberries. He
tried to pull it up, but it was firmly fastened, and a surgeon
was called. By ingeniously passing a leaden bullet along the
line, the weight of the lead loosened the hook, and both bullet
and hook were easily drawn up. Babbit and Battle report an
ingenious method of removing a piece of meat occluding the
esophagus--the application of trypsin. Henry speaks of a German
officer who accidentally swallowed a piece of beer bottle, 3/8 x
1/8 inch, which subsequently penetrated the esophagus, and in its
course irritated the recurrent laryngeal and vagi, giving rise to
the most serious phlegmonous inflammation and distressing
respiratory symptoms.
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