Madden tells of a person, dying of intestinal obstruction, in whose intestines were found several ounces of crude mercury and a plum-stone.

The mercury had evidently been taken for purgative effect.

Rodenbaugh mentions a most interesting case of beans sprouting while in the bowel.

Harrison relates a curious case in which the swallowed lower epiphysis of the femur of a rabbit made its way from the bowel to the bladder, and was discharged thence by the urethra.
In cases of appendicitis foreign bodies have been found lodged in or about the vermiform appendix so often that it is quite a common lay idea that appendicitis is invariably the result of the lodgment of some foreign body accidentally swallowed.

In recent years the literature of this subject proves that a great variety of foreign bodies may be present.