. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . ic sound had been broken off; the fracturedextremity of which, measuring seventeen centimeters in length,subsequently made its exit from the anus of the unfortunatepatient, Avhose recovery followed. Wheeler reports the case of a male of twenty-one who passeda button-hook, measuring two and one-half inches in length andone-half inch in diameter, into the rectum, from whence it bur-rowed into the bladder and was subsecjuently spontaneously ejectedfrom the patients body. Whiteside gives the details of the case of a girl of seven
. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . ic sound had been broken off; the fracturedextremity of which, measuring seventeen centimeters in length,subsequently made its exit from the anus of the unfortunatepatient, Avhose recovery followed. Wheeler reports the case of a male of twenty-one who passeda button-hook, measuring two and one-half inches in length andone-half inch in diameter, into the rectum, from whence it bur-rowed into the bladder and was subsecjuently spontaneously ejectedfrom the patients body. Whiteside gives the details of the case of a girl of seventeenwho introduced into her bladder the handle of a tooth-brush fourinches in length, with the result of a subsequent history sinnilating ORIGINAL:—BARNES 523 pres^nancy. On removal the foreign ol^ject was found to be deeijlyincriisted w illi a calcareous deposit. The patient recovered. Bigelow reports the case of a woman who habitually intro-duced hair|)ins and common pins into her bladder; and Rode hasleft record of a woman who introduced a hogs penis into her. Fig. urethra, which extraordinary object was removed through anincision into the urethra, the patient dying in five days of septi-cemia. Peculiar cases are on record of patients having passedhairs in urination, and Hall once removed a bundle of hjyrs, twoinches in length, from the bladder of a woman sixty years of of these cases serve to accentuate the importance of 524 FOREIGN BODIES IN THE URETHRA AND BLADDER early removal of foreign bodies from the urethra and bladder, thecontinuance of which within the patients body for a length of timebecomes a serious menace to life. Because of the shameful pur-l)Ose for which many of the foreign bodies were introduced, thepatient has concealed the cause of his suffering until surgical inter-ference could no longer avail in saving life. In my own case,however, it was fortunately true that the patient had introducedthe foreign body for an innocent purpose, and for this
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