periesophagitis

Updated: May 20, 2025

Abscess or ulceration, consequent upon periesophagitis, caused by the lodgment of foreign bodies in the esophagus, often leads to the most serious results. There is an instance of a soldier who swallowed a bone while eating soup, who died on the thirty-first day from the rupture internally of an esophageal abscess.

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