Abdominal section was performed, the stomach opened, and from it was removed a mass of hair which weighed five pounds and three ounces.

A good recovery ensued.

In the Museum of St.George's Hospital, London, are masses of hair and string taken from the stomach and duodenum of a girl of ten.

It is said that from the age of three the patient had been in the habit of eating these articles.
There is a record in the last century of a boy of sixteen who ate all the hair he could find; after death his stomach and intestines were almost completely lined with hairy masses.

In the Journal of the American Medical Association, March 1, 1896, there is a report of a case of hair-swallowing.
Foreign Bodies in the Intestines .-- White relates the history of a case in which a silver spoon was swallowed and successfully excised from the intestinal canal.