Foreign bodies in the trachea, bronchi and œsophagus.—The aid of œsophagoscopy, bronchoscopy, and magnetism in their extraction

FREQUENCY.'No adequate statistics are available, but it is certain that the frequency is greater than the reports show.'Many cases doubtless inspirate a foreign body unknown to the parents and the , true cause of the fatal lung lesion is never suspected.In cases of doubt the fiuoroscope is called into requisition and, as in case VIII shows nothing and the .case is discharged with parents and physician happy in the thought that the foreign body was not inhaled.Later the patient is suddenly taken off with pneumonia or bron--chitis attributed to the more usual causes.Foreign bodies are doubtless swallowed by children unknown to the parents, and the resulting gastritis attributed to the usual causes.Undoubtedly, as .pointed out by Halstead, infants often cough up and swallow foreign bodies that have entered the trachea and b'ronehi without the fact ever being known.DIAGNOSIS AND LOCALIZATION.-Before the days of the X-ray much skill was displayed in exploration.The tendency to-(lay is to ignore everything other than X~rays."7e will do well, however, to get the aid of a skilled physical diagnostician.Roentgen rays are of use in three ways: For diagnosis of the presence of the foreign body, to lOcate its exact position, to enable