The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life . CHOKING. oflTending substance. Or if this cannot be done,he should swallow large draughts of water, a pieceof bread, and the like, to force the mass down-wards ; and if all else fails, the probang itselfshould be at once used. Choking may happen in three ways, either ofwhich may prove fatal. A substance may becomelodged at the pharynx, closing both the oesopha-gus and the epiglottis ; or it may slip through atthe epiglottis into the bronchus, or windpipe ; orit may pass some way into the oes
The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life . CHOKING. oflTending substance. Or if this cannot be done,he should swallow large draughts of water, a pieceof bread, and the like, to force the mass down-wards ; and if all else fails, the probang itselfshould be at once used. Choking may happen in three ways, either ofwhich may prove fatal. A substance may becomelodged at the pharynx, closing both the oesopha-gus and the epiglottis ; or it may slip through atthe epiglottis into the bronchus, or windpipe ; orit may pass some way into the oesophagus, andfrom its being of too large size, may there remain. Mr. South, one of the surgeons of St. ThomasHospital in London, relates an instance in which aman who, when eating leg-of-beef-soup for his sup-per, rather greedily, it may be presumed, got intohis throat a piece of meat about two inches long.
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