found dead; fluid, partly digested milk in air-passages.
16-41. _Biggs and Jenkins: Same journal, 1890, lii., p. 30._—Report
of many cases of fatal suffocation from foreign bodies, etc. Boy, age
15—collar-button in larynx. Boy, age 10—mass of butter in larynx.
Boy, age 5—bronchial gland discharged into trachea at bifurcation.
Boy, age 3—screw in larynx. Boy, age 5—rubber balloon with whistle
attached; it was partly inflated with each expiration. Girl, age 10—a
“jack” in larynx. Man, age 45—had been drinking freely; piece of meat
in larynx. Man, age 40—piece of meat in larynx and pharynx. Man, age
40—ditto. Insane patient—piece of meat in trachea. Man—piece of meat
in larynx. Man, age 40—crackers and cheese in larynx. Child—rubber
nipple in larynx. During administration of ether, patient vomited;
vomitus entered larynx. Two children in bed asleep; one, 3 years
old, overlay the face of the younger, age 5 months. Woman, age 25,
epileptic—fell on a child and smothered it. Two children found dead,
covered with bedclothing. Man, age 21, epileptic—found lying on his
face in bed. Girl, age 12, epileptic—ditto. Woman, age 21—ditto.
Girl, age 18—ditto. Woman, age 35, epileptic—fell on the floor.
Woman, age 28—ditto. Man, age 35, epileptic; vomited while in spasm;
vomitus entered larynx. _From Dr Janeway_: Man, epileptic, fell on his
face in pile of manure, which entered larynx. Man, drunk, lying on his
face.