In the Philosophical Transactions is an account of the contents of the stomach of an idiot who died at thirty-three.

In this organ were found nine cart-wheel nails, six screws, two pairs of compasses, a key, an iron pin, a ring, a brass pommel weighing nine ounces, and many other articles.

The celebrated Dr.Lettsom, in 1802, spoke of an idiot who swallowed four pounds of old nails and a pair of compasses.

A lunatic in England e swallowed ten ounces of screws and bits of crockery, all of which were passed by the anus.

Boardman gives an account of a child affected with hernia who swallowed a nail 2 1/2 inches long.