Foreign Bodies in the Vagina.--The elasticity of the vagina
allows the presence in this passage of the most voluminous
foreign bodies. When we consider the passage of a fetal head
through the vagina the ordinary foreign bodies, none of which
ever approximate this size, seem quite reasonable. Goblets,
hair-pins, needles, bottles, beer glasses, compasses, bobbins,
pessaries, and many other articles have been found in the vagina.
It is quite possible for a phosphatic incrustation to be found
about a foreign body tolerated in this location for some time.
Hubbauer speaks of a young girl of nineteen in whose vagina there
was a glass fixed by incrustations which held it solidly in
place. It had been there for six months and was only removed with
great difficulty. Holmes cites a peculiar case in which the neck
of a bottle was found in the vagina of a woman. One point of the
glass had penetrated the bladder and a calculus had formed on
this as well as on the vaginal end.
When a foreign body remains in the vagina for a long time and if
it is composed of material other than glass, it becomes
influenced by the corrosive action of the vaginal secretion. For
instance, Cloquet removed a foreign body which was incrusted in
the vagina, and found the cork pessary which had formed its
nucleus completely rotted.
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