There is an instance of a soldier who swallowed a bone while eating soup, who died on the thirty-first day from the rupture internally of an esophageal abscess.

Grellois has reported the history of a case of a child twenty-two months old, who suffered for some time with impaction of a small bone in the esophagus.

Less than three months afterward the patient died with all the symptoms of marasmus, due to difficult deglutition, and at the autopsy an abscess was seen in the posterior wall of the pharynx, opposite the 3d cervical vertebra; extensive caries was also noticed in the bodies of the 2d, 3d, and 4th cervical vertebrae.

Guattani mentions a curious instance in which a man playing with a chestnut threw it in the air, catching it in his mouth.
The chestnut became lodged in the throat and caused death on the nineteenth day.

At the autopsy it was found that an abscess communicating with the trachea had been formed in the pharynx and esophagus.
A peculiarly fatal accident in this connection is that in which a foreign body in the esophagus ulcerates, and penetrates one of the neighboring major vessels.