Foreign Bodies in the Bronchi.--Walnut kernels, coins, seeds,
beans, corks, and even sponges have been removed from the
bronchi. In the presence of Sir Morrell Mackenzie, Johnston of
Baltimore removed a toy locomotive from the subglottic cavity by
tracheotomy and thyreotomy. The child had gone to sleep with the
toy in his mouth and had subsequently swallowed it. Eldredge
presented a hopeless consumptive, who as a child of five had
swallowed an umbrella ferrule while whistling through it, and who
expelled it in a fit of coughing twenty-three years after. Eve of
Nashville mentions a boy who placed a fourpenny nail in a spool
to make a whistle, and, by a violent inspiration, drew the nail
deep into the left bronchus. It was removed by tracheotomy.
Liston removed a large piece of bone from the right bronchus of a
woman, and Houston tells of a case in which a molar tooth was
lodged in a bronchus causing death on the eleventh day. Warren
mentions spontaneous expulsion of a horse-shoe nail from the
bronchus of a boy of two and one-half years. From Dublin, in
1844, Houston reports the case of a girl of sixteen who inhaled
the wooden peg of a small fiddle and in a fit of coughing three
months afterward expelled it from the lungs.
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