Four days after this, believing himself to be better, the man began to redress the wound, and from it he saw the end of a stick protruding.

A physician was called, and by traction the stick was withdrawn from between the 3d and 4th ribs; forty-nine days after the accident the wound had healed completely.

Two years afterward the patient had an attack of cholera, but in the fifteen subsequent years he lived an active life of labor.
Occasionally an enormous mass of hair has been removed from the stomach.

A girl of twenty a with a large abdominal swelling was admitted to a hospital.

Her illness began five years previously, with frequent attacks of vomiting, and on three occasions it was noticed that she became quite bald.