A Case of Foreign Body in the Larynx

again but failed to extract the foreign body. I could feel the foreign body by passing one finger, into the gullet from the mouth. There was no children's size laryngeal forceps available. On the 14th August, 1925, I screened her myself and found the foreign body lying transversely in the larynx just above the vocal cords. On 15th August, 1925, I put her under chloroform. A gag was put into her mouth. I passed a children's size oesophageal forceps in the reversed way through the tracheal opening, as its curve best suited the case, and my left index finger into the gullet. The foreign body was caught and by manipulation brought down a little. By keeping the finger in the gullet and pressing down the foreign body, I finally caught it with a Spencer Well's forceps and gently brought it out through the tracheal wound. The upper part of the wound was stitched but the stitches did not take.