It rested about four years in this organ
before violent symptoms developed. Perforation of the bladder
took place, and the patient died. Poulet mentions the case of a
man of seventy-eight, in whose bladder a metallic sound was
broken off. The fractured piece of sound, which measured 17 cm.
in length, made its exit from the anus, and the patient
recovered. Wheeler reports the case of a man of twenty-one who
passed a button-hook into his anus, from whence it escaped into
his bladder. The hook, which was subsequently spontaneously
passed, measured 2 1/2 inches in length and 1/2 inch in diameter.
Among females, whose urethrae are short and dilatable, foreign
bodies are often found in the bladder, and it is quite common for
smaller articles of the toilet, such as hair-pins, to be
introduced into the bladder, and there form calculi. Whiteside
describes a case in which a foreign body introduced into the
bladder was mistaken for pregnancy, and giving rise to
corresponding symptoms. The patient was a young girl of seventeen
who had several times missed her menstruation, and who was
considered pregnant. The abdomen was more developed than usual in
a young woman. The breasts were voluminous, and the nipples
surrounded by a somber areola.
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