The cigarette was drawn into the right bronchus, where it remained for two months without causing symptoms or revealing its presence.

It then set up a circumscribed pneumonia and cardiac dropsy which continued two months longer, at which time, during a violent fit of coughing, the cigarette was expelled enveloped in a waxy, mucus-like matter.

Louis relates the case of a man who carried a louis-d'or in his lung for six and a half years.
There is a case on record of a man who received a gunshot wound, the ball entering behind the left clavicle and passing downward and across to the right clavicle.

Sometime afterward this patient expectorated two pieces of bone and a piece of gum blanket in which he was enveloped at the time of the injury.

Carpenter describes a case of fatal pleuritis, apparently due to the presence of four artificial teeth which had been swallowed thirteen years before.
Cardiac Injuries .-- For ages it has been the common opinion relative to injuries of the heart that they are necessarily fatal and that, as a rule, death immediately follows their reception.