Fontaine, Gaspard, Vetillart, Ribert, MacAlister, and Waters record cases in which living caterpillars have been swallowed.
Sundry Cases .-- The variety of foreign bodies that have been swallowed either accidentally or for exhibitional or suicidal purposes is enormous.

Nearly every imaginable article from the minutest to the most incredible size has been reported.

To begin to epitomize the literature on this subject would in itself consume a volume, and only a few instances can be given here, chosen in such a way as to show the variety, the effects, and the possibilities of their passage through the intestinal canal.
Chopart says that in 1774 the belly of a ravenous galley-slave was opened, and in the stomach were found 52 foreign bodies, including a barrel-hoop 19 inches long, nails, pieces of pipe, spoons, buckles, seeds, glass, and a knife.

In the intestines of a person Agnew found a pair of suspenders, a mass of straw, and three roller-bandages, an inch in width and diameter.

Velpeau mentions a fork which was passed from the anus twenty months after it was swallowed.