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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XII
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Eldredge presented a hopeless consumptive, who as a child of five had swallowed an umbrella ferrule while whistling through it, and who expelled it in a fit of coughing twenty-three years after.

Eve of Nashville mentions a boy who placed a fourpenny nail in a spool to make a whistle, and, by a violent inspiration, drew the nail deep into the left bronchus.

It was removed by tracheotomy.

Liston removed a large piece of bone from the right bronchus of a woman, and Houston tells of a case in which a molar tooth was lodged in a bronchus causing death on the eleventh day.

Warren mentions spontaneous expulsion of a horse-shoe nail from the bronchus of a boy of two and one-half years.


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