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2. _Johnson: Lancet, 1878, ii., p. 501._—Boy swallowed penny, became

black in face; eyeballs protruded; symptoms soon subsided. Some hours afterward it was found that he could not swallow solids, and liquids only with difficulty and coughing. Throat much irritated; discharge of mucus sometimes tinged with blood, from mouth; moist rattling noise in throat in respiration; frequent cough; could not sleep. Laryngoscope showed penny in upper part of œsophagus, just below laryngeal opening. Removed by long curved forceps.