of the man who died after a fire at
the Eddystone Lighthouse. He was endeavoring to extinguish the flames
which were at a considerable distance above his head, and was looking
up with his mouth open, when the lead of a melting lantern dropped down
in such quantities as not only to cover his face and enter his mouth,
but run over his clothes. The esophagus and tunica in the lower part
of the stomach were burned, and a great piece of lead, weighing over 7
1/2 ounces, was taken from the stomach after death.

Evans relates the history of a girl of twenty-one who swallowed four
artificial teeth, together with their gold plate; two years and eight
days afterward she ejected them after a violent attack of retching.
Gauthier speaks of a young girl who, while eating soup, swallowed a
fragment of bone. For a long time she had symptoms simulating phthisis,
but fourteen years afterward the bone was dislodged, and, although the
young woman was considered in the last stages of phthisis, she
completely recovered in six weeks. Gastellier has reported the case of
a young man of sixteen who swallowed a crown piece, which became lodged
in the middle portion of the esophagus and could not be removed. For
ten months the piece of money remained in this position, during which
the young man was never without acute pain and often had convulsions.
He vomited material, sometimes alimentary, sometimes mucus, pus, or
blood, and went into the last stage of marasmus. At last, after this
long-continued suffering, following a strong convulsion and syncope,
the coin descended to the stomach, and the young man expectorated great
quantities of pus. After thirty-five years, the coin had not been
passed by the rectum.

Instances of migration of foreign bodies from the esophagus are
repeatedly recorded. There is an instance of a needle which was
swallowed and lodged in the esophagus, but twenty-one months afterward
was extracted by an incision at a point behind the right ear. Kerckring
speaks of a girl who swallowed a needle which was ultimately extracted
from the muscles of her neck. Poulet remarks that Vigla has collected
the most interesting of these cases of migration of foreign bodies.
Hevin mentions several cases of grains of wheat abstracted from
abscesses of the thoracic parietes, from thirteen to fifteen days after
ingestion. Bonnet and Helmontius have reported similar facts.
Volgnarius has seen a grain of wheat make its exit from the axilla, a