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.