uralgia disappeared.
Molinier has an observation on the extraction of a fragment of a
knife-blade which had rested four years in the nasal fossae, where the
blade had broken off during a quarrel.

A peculiar habit, sometimes seen in nervous individuals, is that of
"swallowing the tongue." Cohen claims that in some cases of supposed
laryngeal spasm the tongue is swallowed, occluding the larynx, and
sometimes with fatal consequences. There are possibly a half score of
cases recorded, but this anomaly is very rare, and Major is possibly
the only one who has to a certainty demonstrated the fact by a
laryngoscopic examination. By the laryngoscope he was enabled to
observe a paroxysm in a woman, in which the tongue retracted and
impinged on the epiglottis, but quickly recovered its position. Pettit
mentions suffocation from "tongue swallowing," both with and without
section of the frenum. Schobinger cites a similar instance, due to
loosening of the frenum.

Analogous to the foregoing phenomenon is the habit of "tongue sucking."
Morris mentions a young lady of fifteen who spontaneously dislocated
her jaw, owing indirectly to this habit. Morris says that from infancy
the patient was addicted to this habit, which was so audible as to be
heard in all parts of the room. The continued action of the pterygoid
muscles had so preternaturally loosened the ligaments and muscular
structures supporting the joint as to render them unable to resist the
violent action of "tongue sucking" even during sleep.

Injuries to the Tongue.--Hobbs describes a man of twenty-three who,
while working, had a habit of protruding his tongue. One day he was hit
under the chin by the chain of a crane on a pier, his upper teeth
inflicting a wound two inches deep, three inches from the tip, and
dividing the entire structure of the tongue except the arteries. The
edges of the wound were brought into apposition by sutures, and after
the removal of the latter perfect union and complete restoration of the
sensation of taste ensued. Franck mentions regeneration of a severed
tongue; and Van Wy has seen union of almost entirely severed parts of
the tongue. De Fuisseaux reports reunion of the tongue by suture after
almost complete transverse division.

There is an account of a German soldier who, May 2, 1813, was wounded
at the battle of Gross-Gorschen by a musket ball which penetrated the
left cheek, carrying away the last four molars of the upper jaw and
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