maggots traversed the
Eustachian tube, some being picked out of the nostrils, while others
were coughed up. Packard records the accidental entrance of a
centipede into the nostril. There is an account of a native who was
admitted to the Madras General Hospital, saying that a small lizard had
crawled up his nose. The urine of these animals is very irritating,
blistering any surface it touches. Despite vigorous treatment the
patient died in consequence of the entrance of this little creature.

There have been instances among the older writers in which a pea has
remained in the nose for such a length of time as to present evidences
of sprouting. The Ephemerides renders an instance of this kind, and
Breschet cites the history of a young boy, who, in 1718, introduced a
pea into his nostril; in three days it had swollen to such an extent as
to fill the whole passage. It could not be extracted by an instrument,
so tobacco snuff was used, which excited sneezing, and the pea was
ejected.

Vidal and the Ephemerides report several instances of tolerance of
foreign bodies in the nasal cavities for from twenty to twenty-five
years. Wiesman, in 1893, reported a rhinolith, which was composed of a
cherry-stone enveloped in chalk, that had been removed after a sojourn
of sixty years, with intense ozena as a consequence of its lodgment.
Waring mentions the case of a housemaid who carried a rhinolith, with a
cherry-stone for a nucleus, which had been introduced twenty-seven
years before, and which for twenty-five years had caused no symptoms.
Grove describes a necrosed inferior turbinated bone, to which was
attached a coffee-grain which had been retained in the nostril for
twenty years., Hickman gives an instance of a steel ring which for
thirteen and a half years had been impacted in the nasopharyngeal fossa
of a child. It was detected by the rhinoscope and was removed. Parker
speaks of a gunbreech bolt which was removed from the nose after five
years' lodgment. Major mentions the removal of a foreign body from the
nose seven years after its introduction.

Howard removed a large thimble from the posterior nares, although it
had remained in its position for some time undetected. Eve reports a
case in which a thimble was impacted in the right posterior nares.
Gazdar speaks, of a case of persistent neuralgia of one-half of the
face, caused by a foreign body in the nose. The obstruction was
removed after seven years' lodgment and the ne