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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XII
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He found he could not remove the bottle, and violent inflammation ensued.

It was at last necessary to secure a boy with a small hand to extract the bottle.

There is a record of a case in which a tin cup or tumbler was pushed up the rectum and then passed into the colon where it caused gangrene and death.

It was found to measure 3 1/2 by 3 1/2 by two inches.

There is a French case in which a preserve-pot three inches in diameter was introduced into the rectum, and had to be broken and extracted piece by piece.
Cloquet had a patient who put into his rectum a beer glass and a preserving pot.


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