There is an account of a native who was admitted to the
Madras General Hospital, saying that a small lizard had crawled
up his nose. The urine of these animals is very irritating,
blistering any surface it touches. Despite vigorous treatment the
patient died in consequence of the entrance of this little
creature.
There have been instances among the older writers in which a pea
has remained in the nose for such a length of time as to present
evidences of sprouting. The Ephemerides renders an instance of
this kind, and Breschet cites the history of a young boy, who, in
1718, introduced a pea into his nostril; in three days it had
swollen to such an extent as to fill the whole passage. It could
not be extracted by an instrument, so tobacco snuff was used,
which excited sneezing, and the pea was ejected.
Vidal and the Ephemerides report several instances of tolerance
of foreign bodies in the nasal cavities for from twenty to
twenty-five years. Wiesman, in 1893, reported a rhinolith, which
was composed of a cherry-stone enveloped in chalk, that had been
removed after a sojourn of sixty years, with intense ozena as a
consequence of its lodgment. Waring mentions the case of a
housemaid who carried a rhinolith, with a cherry-stone for a
nucleus, which had been introduced twenty-seven years before, and
which for twenty-five years had caused no symptoms.
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