Foreign Bodies in the Air Passages.

[foreign Bodies in the Air and Food Passages].

Historical aspects of foreign bodies in the air and food passages.

Unrecognized foreign bodies in the air and food passages.

Inhaled and Swallowed Foreign Bodies

' By KENNEDY HUNTER, M.B., F.R.C.S., D.L.O. Hon. Assistant Surgeon, E.N.T. Dept., Royal Victoria Hospital, Hon. Surgeon, E.N.T. Dept., Belfast Ophthalmic Hospital IN reviewing the early medical literature, one is impressed with the relative scarcity of references to foreign bodies in the air passages; practically all the earlier cases were cesophageal. This must be due to failure of recognition...

A historical footnote to respiratory therapy.

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