Bonnet and Helmontius have reported similar facts.
Volgnarius has seen a grain of wheat make its exit from the axilla, and Polisius mentions an abscess of the back from which was extracted a grain of wheat three months after ingestion.

Bally reports a somewhat similar instance, in which, three months after ingestion, during an attack of peripneumonia, a foreign body was extracted from an abscess of the thorax, between the 2d and 3d ribs.

Ambrose found a needle encysted in the heart of a negress.

She distinctly stated that she had swallowed it at a time calculated to have been nine years before her death.

Planque speaks of a small bone perforating the esophagus and extracted through the skin.
Abscess or ulceration, consequent upon periesophagitis, caused by the lodgment of foreign bodies in the esophagus, often leads to the most serious results.