A physician was called, but nothing was done, and the patient seemed to suffer little inconvenience.

Three days later the handle was expelled from the anus.

Teakle reports the successful passage through the alimentary canal of the handle of a music-box.

Hashimoto, Surgeon-General of the Imperial Japanese Army, tells of a woman of forty-nine who was in the habit of inducing vomiting by irritating her fauces and pharynx with a Japanese toothbrush--a wooden instrument six or seven inches long with bristles at one end.

In May, 1872, she accidentally swallowed this brush.