Mr. Musey A CURIOUS FREAK - 1872-

MUSEY

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 4/29/2016 at 11:02:05

Dubuque Herald, July 4, 1872

A CURIOUS FREAK
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A Man Swallows a Bone, and Coughs
It up Ten Months Afterwards
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About ten months ago Mr. Joseph Musey, Jr., of this city, while eating beef soup one day at a diner, swallowed a piece of bone the size of a hickory nut. Soon after this, Mr. Musey became ill, and within a few weeks had failed so much he was compelled to quit manual employment. He was kept under treatment of the best physicians, all of whom were baffled by the singular nature of his ailment, in their attempts to afford him relief. The general opinion was that his disease was consumption, that he was going into a decline, and his case was given up nearly as hopeless. Medical attendance was retained, however, and his friends watched him with a melancholy interest, as he daily grew emaciated and pale with the inroads of death. For a week or two past he complained of a peculiar suffocating sensation in his lungs, that he nor his physicians could account for; his coughing spells were prolonged and frequent, and on Saturday last, in one of these violent fits of coughing, he raised the piece of bone form his lungs, that he had swallowed ten months before, at the same time spitting up nearly a quart of blood and phlegm. The bone is thought to have lodged in his lungs ever since he swallowed it, and since being relieved of it, Mr. Musey has steadily improved in health, and is now said to be in a fair way to recovery.