This man awoke one
morning with his nose and throat full of blood, and noticed that
his false teeth, which he seldom removed at night, were missing.
He rapidly developed great pain and tumor in the larynx, together
with difficulty in deglutition and speech. After a fruitless
search, with instrumental and laryngoscopic aid, the missing
teeth were found--in a chest of drawers; the symptoms immediately
subsided when the mental illusion was relieved.
There is a curious case of a man drowned near Portsmouth. After
the recovery of his body it was seen that his false teeth were
impacted at the anterior opening of the glottis, and it was
presumed that the shock caused by the plunge into the cold water
had induced a violent and deep inspiration which carried the
teeth to the place of impaction.
Perrin reports a case of an old man of eighty-two who lost his
life from the impaction of a small piece of meat in the trachea
and glottis. In the Musee Valde-Grace is a prepared specimen of
this case showing the foreign body in situ. In the same museum
Perrin has also deposited a preparation from the body of a man of
sixty-two, who died from the entrance of a morsel of beef into
the respiratory passages.
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