The wound was closed, the child recovered its voice, and was well four days afterward.

Annandale saw a little patient who had swallowed a bead of glass, which had lodged in the bronchus.

He introduced the handle of a scalpel into the trachea, producing sufficient irritation to provoke a brusque expiration, and at the second attempt the foreign body was expelled.

Hulke records the case of a woman, the victim of a peculiar accident happening during the performance of tracheotomy, for an affection of the larynx.

The internal canule of the tracheotomy-tube fell into the right bronchus, but was removed by an ingenious instrument extemporaneously devised from silver wire.