Shaw is accredited with a case in which the patient lived fifteen months, the fracture being above the 4th cervical vertebra.
In speaking of foreign bodies in the larynx and trachea, the first to be considered will be liquids.

There is a case on record of an infant who was eating some coal, and being discovered by its mother was forced to rapidly swallow some water.

In the excitement, part of the fluid swallowed fell into the trachea, and death rapidly ensued.

It is hardly necessary to mention the instances in which pus or blood from ruptured abscesses entered the trachea and caused subsequent asphyxiation.

A curious instance is reported by Gaujot of Val-de-Grace of a soldier who was wounded in the Franco-Prussian war, and into whose wound an injection of the tincture of iodin was made.