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dyspnœa. In taking a living fish in his teeth (it was about four inches long and had large dorsal fin), the fish passed into the pharynx and lay doubled up. Impossible to remove it because of spines. Tracheotomy at once. Twenty-four hours afterward the fish had decomposed enough to be partly removed. Patient died of exhaustion.