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.