Brodie reported the classic observation of the celebrated engineer, Brunel, who swallowed a piece of money thrown into the air and caught in his mouth.

It fell into the open larynx, was inspired, causing asphyxiation, but was removed by inversion of the man's body.
Sennert says that Pope Adrian IV died from the entrance of a fly into his respiratory passages; and Remy and Gautier record instances of the penetration of small fish into the trachea.

There are, again, instances of leeches in this location.
Occasionally the impaction of artificial teeth in the neighborhood of the larynx has been unrecognized for many years.

Lennox Browne reports the history of a woman who was supposed to have either laryngeal carcinoma or phthisis, but in whom he found, impacted in the larynx, a plate with artificial teeth attached, which had remained in this position twenty-two months unrecognized and unknown.

The patient, when questioned, remembered having been awakened in the night by a violent attack of vomiting, and finding her teeth were missing assumed they were thrown away with the ejections.