The blood of one
of the cut vessels entered the trachea and caused an extra
paroxysm of dyspnea, but the clots of blood were removed by
curved forceps. Marcacci fils practised suction, and placed the
child on its head, but in vain. A feather was then introduced in
the wound with the hope that it would clean the trachea and
provoke respiration; when the feather was withdrawn the bean
followed. The child was much asphyxiated, however, and five or
six minutes elapsed before the first deep inspiration. The wound
was closed, the child recovered its voice, and was well four days
afterward. Annandale saw a little patient who had swallowed a
bead of glass, which had lodged in the bronchus. He introduced
the handle of a scalpel into the trachea, producing sufficient
irritation to provoke a brusque expiration, and at the second
attempt the foreign body was expelled. Hulke records the case of
a woman, the victim of a peculiar accident happening during the
performance of tracheotomy, for an affection of the larynx. The
internal canule of the tracheotomy-tube fell into the right
bronchus, but was removed by an ingenious instrument
extemporaneously devised from silver wire. A few years ago in
this country there was much public excitement and newspaper
discussion over the daily reports which came from the bedside of
a gentleman who had swallowed a cork, and which had become lodged
in a bronchus.
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