Her symptoms increased to the fifth week, when she became
so feeble as to be confined to her bed. A body seemed to be
moving in the trachea, synchronously with respiration. At the end
of the fifth week the missing crown of the tooth was expelled
after a violent fit of coughing; the symptoms immediately
ameliorated, and recovery was rapid thereafter. Aronsohn speaks
of a child who was playing with a toy wind-instrument, and in his
efforts to forcibly aspirate air through it, the child drew the
detached reed into the respiratory passages, causing
asphyxiation. At the autopsy the foreign body was found at the
superior portion of the left bronchus. There are other cases in
which, while sucking oranges or lemons, seeds have been
aspirated; and there is a case in which, in a like manner, the
claw of a crab was drawn into the air-passages. There are two
cases mentioned in which children playing with toy balloons,
which they inflated with their breath, have, by inspiration,
reversed them and drawn the rubber of the balloon into the
opening of the glottis, causing death. Aronsohn, who has already
been quoted, and whose collection of instances of this nature is
probably the most extensive, speaks of a child in the street who
was eating an almond; a carriage threw the child down and he
suddenly inspired the nut into the air-passages, causing
immediate asphyxia The same author also mentions a soldier
walking in the street eating a plum, who, on being struck by a
horse, suddenly started and swallowed the seed of the fruit.
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