The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-03-25
OPERATION To SAVE
Man WITH NAIL
IN LUNG
Medical Profession Deeply In
terested in Case of w. P.
Stanley, Patient at Silver
City Sanitarium.
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Silver City. n. NJ. March %. ~
The ease OF w. 4. Stanley. the Sc.
dalia, Mo, man, who. supposedly
suffering from tuberculosis. has a
nah Embedded in his lung, has ar
oused the medical profession and
many requests for further informa-
ton about the case have come to
Dr Bullock and Dr. Twitchrll. OF
the Cottage sanitarium. who dis
covered the presence of the nail
with an N-Ray Photograph. stanley
be- TO be- saved. Il Is confidently
hoped by an operation, one OF the
most difficult in surgery.
Discussing the case with The
Herald correspondent today, Dr.
Bullock said:
The most interesting thing in
regard 10 the case of Mr.. Stanley Is
the fact that It required so long TO
make "a diagnosis of the actual CON
dition and carries with Il "a lesson
for doctors, that they should not try
To make a cose az their preconceiv-
ed notion OF what IL ought To- be, as
was done in this instance. Cor
though he insisted that ne had in
hailed the nail. no medical man
consulted by him believed him. and
a. vas o until after the nail had
caused tuberculosis around Il By
the coaseloss irritation due 10 It's
presence hat he was FINELY sent
west and his case adequately studied.
Al the time Of the examination made
by Dr. Twitchell and myself he had
become So Disguised with telling
about the nail that he
never mentioned IL TO us at an; Ia
Consequence of which. when we ex-
him the pulmonary signs
were 20 Indefinite and obscure thal
did not feel Justified In q dag
nosis OF tuberculosis, especially as
the septum did not contain tubercic
We took his N-ray photo
graph with the idea of clearing up
he case. II possible. and were sim
ply astounded when we saw the
negative. which, OF course, plainly
revealed the nail We called him IN
to see the plate. and then he said
why, have known that nail was
there for two years, but nobody
believe me
THE operation required FOR the
removal Of the nail Is one OF the
A'N aNANNhMNN u.s. A|AAAMNN III ia
gerry. In which an instrument OF
great ingenuity Is employed, intro
duced hy way OF the windpipe under
a~nesthesin. and by means OF which
the bronchial tubes are illuminated,
and " the nail n not imbeddod, Il
viii be brought within range of the
vision, The instrument Is
a bronchoscope ana has at
tached 20 q a pair Of jaws ny which
Dr. y. Fletcher ingals OF
has saved many lives by
means OF this operation. and we
referred this case to him.
hat the young mar will re-
turn TO us for the cure Of the tuber-
lOEia round the naiL We only de-
termined the presence OF the tuber-
by means o. the tuberculin
applied In the old was hypo-
ieEmicaliy-and al 10 milligrams he
presented the phenomena 1T n a.
.lEnustlc reaction. In "a letter from
lnguls. ne states that without the
removal 81 the nail the Young mans
of recovery h less than enc
n q hundred in fact, foreign bodies
n the lungs are very fatal indocd.
causing anacese t~uhercuios-
q, or what the Germans cail ''schilck
or. as we Americans
q foreign body pneumonia.
'The removal OF foreign bodies
rom tho lungs d one of the tFi-
imphs Of modern medicine