The wound was of such an extent as to communicate with a bronchus, and by this means the iodin entered the respiratory tract, causing suffocation.

According to Poulet, Vidal de Cassis mentions an inmate of the Charite Hospital, in Paris, who, full of wine, had started to vomit; he perceived Corvisart, and knew he would be questioned, therefore he quickly closed his mouth to hide the proofs of his forbidden ingestion.

The materials in his mouth were forced into the larynx, and he was immediately asphyxiated.
Laennec, Merat, and many other writers have mentioned death caused by the entrance of vomited materials into the air-passages.

Parrot has observed a child who died by the penetration of chyme into the air-passages.

The bronchial mucous and underlying membrane were already in a process of digestion.