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This historical case report describes a patient presenting with respiratory distress after swallowing artificial teeth, though the title suggests a separate cardiac pathology.
PRIMARY TUMOUR OF RIGHT AURICLE.[rF1=.I= 'I335 of'a few teeth, which are connected with their neighbours by sh7arp points or hooks.In the case I record below the patient had been for many years in the habit of wearing three artificial incisors attached to a plate which had been broken some months previously, axid which from motives of economy she had neglected to get repaired.History.-E.R., aged 34, who was not in the habit of removing her teeth at night, woke up early in the morning of October 3oth, -x897, with a very sore throat, and found that she had loet her teeth.As she was subject to occasional epileptic attacks she concluded, " as she felt so baid," that she lad had one-during the night and had swallowed her teeth.She sent for her doctor, who advised her to take nothing but gruel, but she found that swallowing was so painful that she took " hardly anytlhing."Thirty- six hours afterwards her breath began to get short, and this graduall increased for the next twenty-four hours, when she applied at the hospital for admission.
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