Excerpt from Progressive Medicine, Vol. 4: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences; December, 1910 The diagnosis of a pulsion diverticulum, which was permitted by so characteristic a train of symptoms, was confirmed by the skiagraph. Another very interesting feature of the case was the fact that the patient's father had for many years suffered with the same symptoms, and that when eating or drinking, the food or liquid frequently returned through either the mouth or nose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.