Mackey reports the removal of a glass pessary after fifty-five
years' incarceration.
There is an account of a young girl addicted to onanism who died
from the presence of a pewter cup in her vagina; it had been
there fourteen months. Shame had led her to conceal her condition
for all the period during which she suffered pain in the
hypogastrium, and diarrhea. She had steadily refused examination.
Bazzanella of Innsbruck removed a drinking glass from the vagina
by means of a pair of small obstetric forceps. The glass had been
placed there ten years previously by the woman's husband.
Szigethy reports the case of a woman of seventy-five who, some
thirty years before, introduced into her vagina a ball of string
previously dipped in wax. The ball was effectual in relieving a
prolapsed uterus, and was worn with so little discomfort that she
entirely forgot it until it was forced out of place by a violent
effort. The ball was seven inches in circumference, and covered
with mucus, but otherwise unchanged. Breisky is accredited with
the report of a case of a woman suffering with dysmenorrhea, in
whose vagina was found a cotton reel which had been introduced
seven years before. The woman made a good recovery.
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