Grove
describes a necrosed inferior turbinated bone, to which was
attached a coffee-grain which had been retained in the nostril
for twenty years., Hickman gives an instance of a steel ring
which for thirteen and a half years had been impacted in the
nasopharyngeal fossa of a child. It was detected by the
rhinoscope and was removed. Parker speaks of a gunbreech bolt
which was removed from the nose after five years' lodgment. Major
mentions the removal of a foreign body from the nose seven years
after its introduction.
Howard removed a large thimble from the posterior nares, although
it had remained in its position for some time undetected. Eve
reports a case in which a thimble was impacted in the right
posterior nares. Gazdar speaks, of a case of persistent neuralgia
of one-half of the face, caused by a foreign body in the nose.
The obstruction was removed after seven years' lodgment and the
neuralgia disappeared. Molinier has an observation on the
extraction of a fragment of a knife-blade which had rested four
years in the nasal fossae, where the blade had broken off during
a quarrel.
A peculiar habit, sometimes seen in nervous individuals, is that
of "swallowing the tongue." Cohen claims that in some cases of
supposed laryngeal spasm the tongue is swallowed, occluding the
larynx, and sometimes with fatal consequences.
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