In
The Lancet of December 10, 1881, there is an account of a
vulcanite tooth-plate which was swallowed and passed forty-two
hours later. Billroth mentions an instance of gastrotomy for the
removal of swallowed artificial teeth, with recovery; and another
case in which a successful esophagotomy was performed. Gardiner
mentions a woman of thirty-three who swallowed two false teeth
while supping soup. A sharp angle of the broken plate had caught
in a fold of the cardiac end of the stomach and had caused
violent hematemesis. Death occurred seventeen hours after the
first urgent symptoms.
In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London there is
an intestinal concretion weighing 470 grains, which was passed by
a woman of seventy who had suffered from constipation for many
years. Sixteen years before the concretion was passed she was
known to have swallowed a tooth. At one side of the concretion a
piece had been broken off exposing an incisor tooth which
represented the nucleus of the formation. Manasse recently
reported the case of a man of forty-four whose stomach contained
a stone weighing 75 grams. He was a joiner and, it was supposed,
habitually drank some alcoholic solution of shellac used in his
trade.
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