It is not uncommon for needles,
hair-pins, and the like to form nuclei for incrustations. Gross
found three caudal vertebrae of a squirrel in the center of a
vesical calculus taken from the bladder of a man of thirty-five.
It was afterward elicited that the patient had practiced urethral
masturbation with the tail of this animal. Morand relates the
history of a man of sixty-two who introduced a sprig of wheat
into his urethra for a supposed therapeutic purpose. It slipped
into the bladder and there formed the nucleus of a cluster
calculus. Dayot reports a similar formation from the introduction
of the stem of a plant. Terrilon describes the case of a man of
fifty-four who introduced a pencil into his urethra. The body
rested fifteen days in this canal, and then passed into the
bladder. On the twenty-eighth day he had a chill, and during two
days made successive attempts to break the pencil. Following each
attempt he had a violent chill and intense evening fever. On the
thirty-third day Terrilon removed the pencil by operation.
Symptoms of perivesical abscess were present, and seventeen days
after the operation, and fifty days after the introduction of the
pencil, the patient died. Caudmont mentions a man of twenty-six
who introduced a pencil-case into his urethra, from whence it
passed into his bladder.
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