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recites a case occurring in a pointer dog, which swallowed its
collar and chain, only imperfectly masticating the collar. The
chain and collar were immediately missed and search made for
them. For several days the dog was ill and refused food. Finally
the gamekeeper saw the end of the chain hanging from the dog's
anus, and taking hold of it, he drew out a yard of chain with
links one inch long, with a cross bar at the end two inches in
length; the dog soon recovered. The collar was never found, and
had apparently been digested or previously passed.
Fear of robbery has often led to the swallowing of money or
jewelry. Vaillant, the celebrated doctor and antiquarian, after a
captivity of four months in Algiers, was pursued by Tunis
pirates, and swallowed 15 medals of gold; shortly after arriving
at Lyons he passed them all at stool. Fournier and Duret
published the history of a galley slave at Brest in whose stomach
were found 52 pieces of money, their combined weight being one
pound, 10 1/4 ounces. On receiving a sentence of three years'
imprisonment, an Englishman, to prevent them being taken from
him, swallowed seven half-crowns. He suffered no bad effects, and
the coins not appearing the affair was forgotten.
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