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Show Swallowed III Cigarette. Dr. LHpeyre mentions a remarkable case, in which an elderly gentleman, in consequence of a sudden slap on the back, unconsciously drew the cigarette he was smoking into his right bronchus, where it remained without causing any symptoms or in any way revealing its presence for nearly two months, when it set up pneumonia in a circumscribed area, and produced cardiac weakness and some oedema of the lungs. After this condition had lasted without with-out much change for about two mouths more the patient expelled during a violet; vio-let; ' of coughing the cigarette, enveloped envel-oped in mu -usand waxy looking matter, and then remembered that he had never found hia cigarette after the slap on the back four mouths before. The pneumonia pneumo-nia persisted for two or three months after the expulsion of the foreign body, and some nedema of the right lung, due probably to embolism, remained at the ; date of the report nearly a year later. I This, as well as eome other cases that I have been published, appears to show j that the bronchi are exceedingly tolerant ! of foreigh bodies, even when not encyst-! encyst-! ed. London Lancet. |