THE THROAT AND NECK 



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in a fit of choking. The most common foreign bodies are 

 bones, needles, and pieces of wood. If external manipulation 

 will not bring about the desired result, and the foreign body 

 cannot be moved one ^^•ay or the other, a probang must be 

 passed. The gulping actions of the patient and the evident 

 distress, with return of food 

 down the nostrils when at- 

 tempting to swallow, are the 

 chief symptoms manifest. 



Fig. Ill is a sketch made from a 

 kitten. A needle tiad become trans- 

 fixed across the larynx. The patient 

 was continually gulping, and the 

 probang- was passed several times 

 without giving relief. Eventually the 

 animal died, and the needle was dis- 

 covered on post-morieiii examination. 



Fig. 112 shows a case of carcinoma 

 of the oesophagus, the patient being 

 a cat eight years old, and observed 

 by the owner to have difficulty in 

 swallowing. 



Knowing the frequency with which 

 these animals get a foreign body in 

 the throat and cesophagus, a probang 

 was passed. This could distinctly be 

 felt to pass over a fixed and hardened 

 body in the gullet, both when going- 

 down and when being withdrawn. A 



growth of some kind was diagnosed, and, as the owner did not wish 

 for an operation, the patient was painlessly destroyed. Thi posi-mortem 

 examinatipn revealed the condition of things illustrated in Fig. H2, 

 the specimen being sent to Drs. Bashford and Murray, of the Imperial 

 Cancer Research Fund, and discovered, upon microscopical e.xaiTiination, 

 to be true epithelioma of the squamous-celled variety. 



Fig. 112 — Carcinoma of the 

 Oesophagus in a Cat.^ 



1 Proceedings of the Central Veterinary Medical Society, Ve/e}iiiaiy 

 Record, March, 1905. 



