Under treatment, it rallied somewhat, but soon afterward it ejected four ounces more of blood and died in a few minutes.

At the autopsy 3/4 pint of blood was found in the stomach, and a perforation was discovered on the right side of the esophagus, leading into a cavity, in which a blackened half-penny was found.

A probe passed along the aorta into the innominate protruded into the same cavity about the bifurcation of the vessel.
Denonvilliers has described a perforation of the esophagus and aorta by a five-franc piece.

A preserved preparation of this case, showing the coin in situ, is in the Musee Dupuytren.

Blaxland relates the instance of a woman of forty-five who swallowed a fish bone, was seized with violent hematemesis, and died in eight hours.