He rapidly developed great pain and tumor in the larynx, together with difficulty in deglutition and speech.

After a fruitless search, with instrumental and laryngoscopic aid, the missing teeth were found--in a chest of drawers; the symptoms immediately subsided when the mental illusion was relieved.
There is a curious case of a man drowned near Portsmouth.

After the recovery of his body it was seen that his false teeth were impacted at the anterior opening of the glottis, and it was presumed that the shock caused by the plunge into the cold water had induced a violent and deep inspiration which carried the teeth to the place of impaction.
Perrin reports a case of an old man of eighty-two who lost his life from the impaction of a small piece of meat in the trachea and glottis.
In the Musee Valde-Grace is a prepared specimen of this case showing the foreign body in situ.

In the same museum Perrin has also deposited a preparation from the body of a man of sixty-two, who died from the entrance of a morsel of beef into the respiratory passages.

At the postmortem a mobile mass of food about the size of a hazel-nut was found at the base of the larynx at the glossoepiglottic fossa.