A few of the interesting cases will be cited in the following lines:-- In the New England Medical Journal, 1843, is an account of a vermiform appendix which was taken from the body of a man of eighty-eight who had died of pneumothorax.

During life there were no symptoms of disease of the appendix, and after death no adhesions were found, but this organ was remarkably long, and in it were found 122 robin-shot.

The old gentleman had been excessively fond of birds all his life, and was accustomed to bolt the meat of small birds without properly chewing it; to this fact was attributed the presence of these shot in the appendix.
A somewhat similar case was that of a man who died in the Hotel-Dieu in 1833.

The ileum of this man contained 92 shot and 120 plum stones.
Buckler reports a case of appendicitis in a child of twelve, in which a common-sized bird-shot was found in the appendix.

Packard presented a case of appendicitis in which two pieces of rusty and crooked wire, one 2 1/2 and the other 1 1/2 inches long, were found in the omentum, having escaped from the appendix.