Fabricius Hildanus relates a similar instance in which a sponge-tent was expelled by coughing.

Arnot reports a case in which a piece of iron was found in a cyst in the thorax, where it had remained for fourteen years.

Leach gives a case in which a bullet was impacted in the chest for forty-two years.

Snyder speaks of a fragment of knife-blade which was lodged in the chest twelve years and finally coughed up.
Foreign Bodies in the Bronchi .-- Walnut kernels, coins, seeds, beans, corks, and even sponges have been removed from the bronchi.

In the presence of Sir Morrell Mackenzie, Johnston of Baltimore removed a toy locomotive from the subglottic cavity by tracheotomy and thyreotomy.
The child had gone to sleep with the toy in his mouth and had subsequently swallowed it.