LUNG TELESCOPE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 913, 5 September 1910, Page 8

LUNG TELESCOPE.

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':. By ; the> use' of a'/newly-inyeiited/minii. >r'':, : w ■ ■windpipe::ah(lii;intd.vthe juronchial./.rubes::'-->• had. swailowed.a'shawl-;V : piiv -one-'of : . the, surgeons, of. -'~-.y; lege Hpspitai'.was recently; able to 'see tho;'-;/.;;:;- / 1 pin, > to' remove it'with' ' forceps; V and., so;;. -A.,.. !'save'.the'-life'/of;.* tho^patieht;-who.; .^vaa;•;>■-;; 'apparently -beyond human-:aid.':; .!;-••• f ! .'£ •'■-.;- J ; ■;'■;!;: *" ■'I'he. ■' instrumeht,:;::called;;:a;:i:broncho-; ; ■scope, '■ resembles -a-lsmall'.bent-telescope '//n/> ; . .fitted with lenses 1 at different -angles, and ■.;■'■.;.:# has a-.tiny ; electxic:,light;.,which ; .-can; :-V' l/passcd-'deep into..the'hing.y: -u^^'i-'i ■ -The. day, after the pin- was swallowed;•-"-<:£; aii'< X-rays examination, showed: its posi-'j.,'.;.'■■■';': '.tion -beneath the':sixth' rib,-'"'about:-ah jytfi inch-to-the" right-of the breastbone.', The v.';.::- 5; Lpatient:-was:'chloroformed,. .andvtheii' : a.';2o' ..per/cent:solution -of .cocaine ;was; sprayed;;/, % : over'- the laryiii./ and...windpipe.*;'.: The'.•.;:;-: telescope tube wasl'then - passed, through, i;'/^;'• .the "mouth and. larynx•;. down: the'" .wind-.:' . -,. ■■ i)ipe: ; ' ; ;v ■■'■'. •■;■..:':■ '/.'■-'^'"'■:;''-''-,';'/ ' : Peering down : ■•- tEe''.tube :■■ the ■;.surgeon ft -. n; finally. located-.:.th'e" pin, ■, fixed. head -down- /;'./ 'y wards' in ;one : , of the :.'brirachesiofVtho ; .;.,'';'. windnipc,; at a .-distance of' thirteen inches;.;/;•: /; from"Uio':mouth.ii 'A-vpair;'of ■very::'fias;:'; . 'fbrcens '-on- the-end of. adong .flexible, ~ ;■/ ; wire "passed.'dowji, the: hollow:-.telescope-,;.,;■.:"/ 'tube' was":then made.'to'-grasp.the pin.v ;/.;, and .the- pin;: forceps; and telescope, were v ,-:: 7 ., withdrawn together;'"Within a fewiours. ,:v.f..the patient :was%ble" to'/returnfttoVhej ,v. : .;V> home- none -the-'worso for. ah, accident'..,.■;•.>•;, jwhich before the invention :of the; .lung;,; v.; -. telescope-'would ;almost. inevitably) proved fatal/-' -V/'lv.'^j-'^' ■'■ "-.'■.'■'-.-■.■ A' : -. ; '•")".'-*': vt-/'^,