Quite likely the shellac had been precipitated in the
stomach and gave rise to the calculus.
Berwick mentions a child of eight months who was playing with a
detached organ-handle, and put it in its mouth. Seeing this the
mother attempted to secure the handle, but it was pushed into the
esophagus. A physician was called, but nothing was done, and the
patient seemed to suffer little inconvenience. Three days later
the handle was expelled from the anus. Teakle reports the
successful passage through the alimentary canal of the handle of
a music-box. Hashimoto, Surgeon-General of the Imperial Japanese
Army, tells of a woman of forty-nine who was in the habit of
inducing vomiting by irritating her fauces and pharynx with a
Japanese toothbrush--a wooden instrument six or seven inches long
with bristles at one end. In May, 1872, she accidentally
swallowed this brush. Many minor symptoms developed, and in
eleven months there appeared in the epigastric region a
fluctuating swelling, which finally burst, and from it extended
the end of the brush. After vainly attempting to extract the
brush the attending physician contented himself with cutting off
the projecting portion. The opening subsequently healed; and not
until thirteen years later did the pain and swelling return.
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