De Diemerbroeck mentions
the fact that a knife ten inches long was extracted by
gastrotomy, and placed among the rarities in the anatomic chamber
of the University at Leyden. The operation was done in 1635 at
Koenigsberg, by Schwaben, who for his surgical prowess was
appointed surgeon to the King of Poland. The patient lived eight
years after the operation.
It is said that in 1691, while playing tricks with a knife 6 1/2
inches long, a country lad of Saxony swallowed it, point first.
He came under the care of Weserern, physician to the Elector of
Brandenburgh, who successfully extracted it, two years and seven
months afterward, from the pit of the lad's stomach. The horn
haft of the knife was considerably digested. In 1720 Hubner of
Rastembourg operated on a woman who had swallowed an open knife.
After the incision it was found that the knife had almost pierced
the stomach and had excited a slight suppuration. After the
operation recovery was very prompt.
Bell of Davenport, Iowa, performed gastrotomy on a man, who,
while attempting a feat of legerdemain, allowed a bar of lead, 10
1/8 inches long, 1 1/2 inches wide, and 9 1/2 ounces in weight,
to slip into his stomach. The bar was removed and the patient
recovered.
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