Foreign Body in the Throat

SlH,-Doorgaova Doorgaya, a female child, aged 1 year, of the YVaddar caste, resident of the village Kaniarevadi in the Chittapur Taluq of the Kalgi (Paigoh) District in H. H. the Nizam's Dominions, was brought to the Civil dispensary in the morning of the 17th December 1911 at about 10 A.M. The child was suffering from great dyspnoea and when enquiied into, her father said that the child had accidentally swallowed something which had choked her. The dispensary is about three miles from that village, and it took them one hour to come to the dispensary. The Hospital Assistant Mahomed Said ud-din Khan in charge of the dispensary at once sent for me, I being residing in the same compound. I saw the child almost asphyxiated. The foreign body to the touch of the finger felt to be hard, of a fairly big size and firmly fixed at the upper part of the larynx. Before the foreign body could be removed, the child to our surprise seemed to expire. Even then efforts were made and the foreign body was removed by means of a long polypus forceps and efforts were made to restore the child. I at once commenced with the artificial respiration by means of Sylvester's method, when the Hospital Assistant held out the tongue by means of the same polypus forceps and compounder Syed Abdul Rehman of the Plague Camp was directed by me to perform digital dilatation of the anus and another compounder Lalaji of the dispensary was directed to flicker water on the child's face.