Guattani mentions a curious instance
in which a man playing with a chestnut threw it in the air,
catching it in his mouth. The chestnut became lodged in the
throat and caused death on the nineteenth day. At the autopsy it
was found that an abscess communicating with the trachea had been
formed in the pharynx and esophagus.
A peculiarly fatal accident in this connection is that in which a
foreign body in the esophagus ulcerates, and penetrates one of
the neighboring major vessels. Colles mentions a man of fifty-six
who, while eating, perceived a sensation as of a rent in the
chest. The pain was augmented during deglutition, and almost
immediately afterward he commenced to expectorate great
quantities of blood. On the following day he vomited a bone about
an inch long and died on the same day. At the autopsy it was
found that there was a rent in the posterior wall of the
esophagus, about 1/2 inch long, and a corresponding wound of the
aorta. There was blood in the pleura, pericardium, stomach, and
intestines. There is one case in which a man of forty-seven
suddenly died, after vomiting blood, and at the autopsy it was
demonstrated that a needle had perforated the posterior wall of
the esophagus and wounded the aorta.
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