This was known since 1947, including treatment. Prestigious French botanist Floris Vian describes such a case in his work where a water lily grown into a lung was almost successfully treated by surrounding the patient with flowers. Unfortunately they ran so much out of funds that even the roof of the building collapsed.
So in this case they should have surrounded him with lots of vegetables.
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This was known since 1947, including treatment. Prestigious French botanist Floris Vian describes such a case in his work where a water lily grown into a lung was almost successfully treated by surrounding the patient with flowers. Unfortunately they ran so much out of funds that even the roof of the building collapsed. So in this case they should have surrounded him with lots of vegetables.