At one side of the concretion a piece had been broken off exposing an incisor tooth which represented the nucleus of the formation.

Manasse recently reported the case of a man of forty-four whose stomach contained a stone weighing 75 grams.

He was a joiner and, it was supposed, habitually drank some alcoholic solution of shellac used in his trade.

Quite likely the shellac had been precipitated in the stomach and gave rise to the calculus.
Berwick mentions a child of eight months who was playing with a detached organ-handle, and put it in its mouth.

Seeing this the mother attempted to secure the handle, but it was pushed into the esophagus.