Relief was prompt, and the removal of the foreign body was followed by the issue of stercoraceous matter which had accumulated the six days it had remained in situ.
Tuffet is quoted as mentioning a farmer of forty-six who, in masturbation, introduced a barley-head into his urethra.

It was found necessary to cut the foreign body out of the side of the glans.

A year later he put in his anus a cylindric snuff-box of large size, and this had to be removed by surgical methods.

Finally, a drinking goblet was used, but this resulted in death, after much suffering and lay treatment.

In his memoirs of the old Academy of Surgery in Paris, Morand speaks of a monk who, to cure a violent colic, introduced into his fundament a bottle of l'eau de la reine de Hongrie, with a small opening in its mouth, by which the contents, drop by drop, could enter the intestine.