Leech in the Air Passages
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One day last year on arriving at tlie Panchmar dispensary I found 'the Sub-Assistant Surgeon trying to remove a leech from tlie pharynx of an Afghan lad of fourteen. I told him to carry on while I attended to some other work and present' ly he reported that the leech had gone down into the boy's larynx. With direct sunlight and a laryngoscopic mirror I could see the leech very clearly lying on the ventricular band on the right side. From time to time the patient was seized with paroxysms of coughing and dyspnoea.
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