Hamelin mentions a case of
this nature. It is said that all his life Sir William Elliot was
annoyed by passing hairs in urination. They would lodge in the
urethra and cause constant irritation. At his death a stone was
taken from the bladder, covered with scurf and hair. Hall relates
the case of a woman of sixty, from whose bladder, by dilatation
of the urethra, was removed a bundle of hairs two inches long,
which, Hall says, without a doubt had grown from the vesical
walls.
Retention of Foreign Bodies in the Pelvis.--It is a peculiar fact
that foreign bodies which once gain entrance to the pelvis may be
tolerated in this location for many years. Baxter describes a man
who suffered an injury from a piece of white board which entered
his pelvis, and remained in position for sixteen and a half
years; at this time a piece of wood 7 1/2 inches long was
discharged at stool, and the patient recovered. Jones speaks of a
case in which splinters of wood were retained in the neighborhood
of the rectum and vagina for sixteen years, and spontaneously
discharged. Barwell mentions a case in which a gum elastic
catheter that had been passed into the vagina for the purpose of
producing abortion became impacted in the pelvis for twenty
months, and was then removed.
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