It is particularly among the older
writers that we find accounts of this nature. In the Ephemerides
we read of a man who vomited a serpent that had crept into his
mouth, and of another person who ejected a beetle that had gained
entrance in a similar manner. From the same authority we find
instances of the vomiting of live fish, mice, toads, and also of
the passage by the anus of live snails and snakes. Frogs vomited
are mentioned by Bartholinus, Dolaeus, Hellwigius, Lentilus,
Salmuth, and others. Vege mentions a man who swallowed a young
chicken whole. Paullini speaks of a person who, after great pain,
vomited a mouse which he had swallowed. Borellus, Bartholinus,
Thoner, and Viridet, are among the older authorities mentioning
persons who swallowed toads. Hippocrates speaks of asphyxia from
a serpent which had crawled into the mouth.
Borellus states that he knew a case of a person who vomited a
salamander. Plater reports the swallowing of eels and snails.
Rhodius mentions persons who have eaten scorpions and spiders
with impunity. Planchon writes of an instance in which a live
spider was ejected from the bowel; and Colini reports the passage
of a live lizard which had been swallowed two days before, and
there is another similar case on record.
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