While at stool
some twenty months afterward, having taken a purgative for
intense abdominal pain, the seven coins fell clattering into the
chamber. Hevin mentions the case of a man who, on being captured
by Barbary pirates, swallowed all the money he had on his person.
It is said that a certain Italian swallowed 100 louis d'ors at a
time.
It occasionally happens that false teeth are accidentally
swallowed, and even passed through the intestinal tract. Easton
mentions a young man who accidentally swallowed some artificial
teeth the previous night, and, to further their passage through
the bowel, he took a dose of castor oil. When seen he was
suffering with pain in the stomach, and was advised to eat much
heavy food and avoid aperients. The following day after several
free movements he felt a sharp pain in the lower part of his
back. A large enema was given and the teeth and plate came away.
The teeth were cleansed and put back in his mouth, and the
patient walked out. Nine years later the same accident again
happened to the man but in spite of treatment nothing was seen of
the teeth for a month afterward, when a body appeared in the
rectum which proved to be a gold plate with the teeth in it.
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