Wright remarks on Banon's case of fresh-water
shrimps passed from the human intestine. Dalton, Dickman, and
others, have discussed the possibility of a slug living in the
stomach of man. Pichells speaks of a case in which beetles were
expelled from the stomach; and Pigault gives an account of a
living lizard expelled by vomiting. Fontaine, Gaspard, Vetillart,
Ribert, MacAlister, and Waters record cases in which living
caterpillars have been swallowed.
Sundry Cases.--The variety of foreign bodies that have been
swallowed either accidentally or for exhibitional or suicidal
purposes is enormous. Nearly every imaginable article from the
minutest to the most incredible size has been reported. To begin
to epitomize the literature on this subject would in itself
consume a volume, and only a few instances can be given here,
chosen in such a way as to show the variety, the effects, and the
possibilities of their passage through the intestinal canal.
Chopart says that in 1774 the belly of a ravenous galley-slave
was opened, and in the stomach were found 52 foreign bodies,
including a barrel-hoop 19 inches long, nails, pieces of pipe,
spoons, buckles, seeds, glass, and a knife. In the intestines of
a person Agnew found a pair of suspenders, a mass of straw, and
three roller-bandages, an inch in width and diameter.
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