peach pit

plural peach pits · alternative peach-pit

1. The stone of a peach.

   Anyone who has removed a normal peach pit from a ripe fruit and cracked it with a hammer knows how firmly the two halves are held together at the sutures.

   1926 October 29, M.A. Blake, “The secret of the split-pit peach”, in New Jersey Agriculture. Published monthly at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, to acquaint Jerseymen with the activities of their College of Agriculture, Agricultural Extension Service, and Agricultural Experiment Station, volume 8, number 10, page 2

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   ŒSOPHAGEAL STENOSIS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL RECORD. Sir: Some eight or ten years ago I wrote you an account of a case of this accident, caused by an attempt to swallow a peach-pit, which became fixed in the gullet. It was in the case of a stout man, sixty or more years of age, who was the patient of a neighboring physician, who came to consult me about it. I advised him to give an enema of an ounce of the fluid extract of lobelia inflata, in ten ounces of warm water, and repeat, if necessary, until emesis was produced. He did so, and in a few minutes the patient vomited out the peach-pit, to the great relief of the doctor as well as of his patient. Seeing an account in your journal of two or three similar cases in which operations were resorted to with fatal results, induces me to again call the attention of your readers to this simple but effectual mode of relief in all similar cases. There is no danger in it, or attending it; and if it fails, the operation may be resorted to as well after as before this treatment. The medicine relaxes the œsophagus, and the vomiting rushes the obstruction out in a handsome manner. I do not believe that any surgeon can be justified in performing such an operation without first trying this remedy. Very respectfully yours, etc., J. S. PRETTYMAN, M.D. Milford, Del., January 25, 1893.

   1893 February 4, J.S. Prettyman, “Oesophageal stenosis”, in George F. Shrady, editor, Medical Record. A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 43, number 5 (Whole No. 1161), page 157