Swallowed Trinkets is a photograph by Food & Drug Administration which was uploaded on July 12th, 2016.
Swallowed Trinkets
Swallowed trinkets. X-rays of four children who have swallowed trinkets that were embedded within sweets. Small children often choked on such... more
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Swallowed Trinkets
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Food & Drug Administration
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Swallowed trinkets. X-rays of four children who have swallowed trinkets that were embedded within sweets. Small children often choked on such trinkets and ingestion was occasionally fatal. These X-rays, taken by the US laryngologist Chevalier Jackson (1865-1958) in the early 1930s, were presented to the US congress to support legislation to prevent such sweets being sold. On
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July 12th, 2016