In excitement this prisoner had pushed the conic end up
first, thus rendering expulsion almost impossible. Ogle gives an
interesting case of foreign body in the rectum of a boy of
seventeen. The boy was supposed to be suffering with an abdominal
tumor about the size of a pigeon's egg under the right
cartilages; it had been noticed four months before. On admission
to the hospital the lad was suffering with pain and jaundice;
sixteen days later he passed a stick ten inches long, which he
reluctantly confessed that he had introduced into the anus.
During all his treatment he was conscious of the nature of his
trouble, but he suffered rather than confess. Studsgaard mentions
a man of thirty-five who, for the purpose of stopping diarrhea,
introduced into his rectum a preserve-bottle nearly seven inches
long with the open end uppermost. The next morning he had violent
pain in the abdomen, and the bottle could be felt through the
abdominal wall. It was necessary to perform abdominal section
through the linea alba, divide the sigmoid flexure, and thus
remove the bottle. The intestine was sutured and the patient
recovered. The bottle measured 17 cm. long, five cm. in diameter
at its lower end, and three cm.
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