After the accident he had little pain or oppression, and no
coughing, but twelve hours afterward he rejected the seed in
coughing.
A curious accident is that in which a foreign body thrown into
the air and caught in the mouth has caused immediate
asphyxiation. Suetonius transmits the history of a young man, a
son of the Emperor Claudius, who, in sport, threw a small pear
into the air and caught it in his mouth, and, as a consequence,
was suffocated. Guattani cites a similar instance of a man who
threw up a chestnut, which, on being received in the mouth,
lodged in the air-passages; the man died on the nineteenth day.
Brodie reported the classic observation of the celebrated
engineer, Brunel, who swallowed a piece of money thrown into the
air and caught in his mouth. It fell into the open larynx, was
inspired, causing asphyxiation, but was removed by inversion of
the man's body.
Sennert says that Pope Adrian IV died from the entrance of a fly
into his respiratory passages; and Remy and Gautier record
instances of the penetration of small fish into the trachea.
There are, again, instances of leeches in this location.
Occasionally the impaction of artificial teeth in the
neighborhood of the larynx has been unrecognized for many years.
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