For ten months
the piece of money remained in this position, during which the
young man was never without acute pain and often had convulsions.
He vomited material, sometimes alimentary, sometimes mucus, pus,
or blood, and went into the last stage of marasmus. At last,
after this long-continued suffering, following a strong
convulsion and syncope, the coin descended to the stomach, and
the young man expectorated great quantities of pus. After
thirty-five years, the coin had not been passed by the rectum.
Instances of migration of foreign bodies from the esophagus are
repeatedly recorded. There is an instance of a needle which was
swallowed and lodged in the esophagus, but twenty-one months
afterward was extracted by an incision at a point behind the
right ear. Kerckring speaks of a girl who swallowed a needle
which was ultimately extracted from the muscles of her neck.
Poulet remarks that Vigla has collected the most interesting of
these cases of migration of foreign bodies. Hevin mentions
several cases of grains of wheat abstracted from abscesses of the
thoracic parietes, from thirteen to fifteen days after ingestion.
Bonnet and Helmontius have reported similar facts. Volgnarius has
seen a grain of wheat make its exit from the axilla, and Polisius
mentions an abscess of the back from which was extracted a grain
of wheat three months after ingestion.
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