Gross mentions that in 1502 Florian Mathias of Bradenberg
removed a knife nine inches long from the stomach of a man of
thirty-six, followed by a successful recovery. Glandorp, from
whom, possibly, Gross derived his information, relates this
memorable case as being under the direction of Florianus
Matthaesius of Bradenburg. The patient, a native of Prague, had
swallowed a knife eight or nine inches long, which lay pointing
at the superior portion of the stomach. After it had been lodged
in this position for seven weeks and two days gastrotomy was
performed, and the knife extracted; the patient recovered. In
1613 Crollius reports the case of a Bohemian peasant who had
concealed a knife in his mouth, thinking no one would suspect he
possessed the weapon; while he was excited it slipped into the
stomach, from whence it subsequently penetrated through to the
skin; the man recovered. There is another old case of a man at
Prague who swallowed a knife which some few weeks afterward made
its exit from an abdominal abscess. Gooch quotes the case of a
man, belonging to the Court of Paris, who, nine months after
swallowing a knife, voided it at the groin. In the sixteenth
century Laurentius Joubert relates a similar case, the knife
having remained in the body two years.
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