A peculiar case is that of the man who died
after a fire at the Eddystone Lighthouse. He was endeavoring to
extinguish the flames which were at a considerable distance above
his head, and was looking up with his mouth open, when the lead
of a melting lantern dropped down in such quantities as not only
to cover his face and enter his mouth, but run over his clothes.
The esophagus and tunica in the lower part of the stomach were
burned, and a great piece of lead, weighing over 7 1/2 ounces,
was taken from the stomach after death.
Evans relates the history of a girl of twenty-one who swallowed
four artificial teeth, together with their gold plate; two years
and eight days afterward she ejected them after a violent attack
of retching. Gauthier speaks of a young girl who, while eating
soup, swallowed a fragment of bone. For a long time she had
symptoms simulating phthisis, but fourteen years afterward the
bone was dislodged, and, although the young woman was considered
in the last stages of phthisis, she completely recovered in six
weeks. Gastellier has reported the case of a young man of sixteen
who swallowed a crown piece, which became lodged in the middle
portion of the esophagus and could not be removed.
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