Unfortunately, we do not know the likeness (or the name) of the unfortunate patient.
Bone fragments thrown up by the patient (1) and found during autopsy (2). Georg von Adelmann, “Beiträge zur chirurgischen Pathologie und Therapie der Ernährungsorgane II: Ueber Fremdkörper im Pharynx und Oesophagus,” Vierteljahrschrift für die praktische Heilkunde 24/4 (1867), 66-108, 68.
Georg von Adelmann (1811-1888), surgeon, after graduating from the Marburg Medical Faculty assistant and Associate Professor in Marburg and Fulda, 1841-1971 Professor of Surgery in Tartz (Dorpat).