chaumeton

Updated: May 26, 2025

Chaumeton mentions a young man who did not perceive a wasp in a glass of sweet wine, and swallowed the insect. He was stung in the throat, followed by such intense inflammation that the man died asphyxiated in the presence of his friends, who could do nothing to relieve him.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine