The stone was extracted in 1756 by a surgeon named Frantz Dyhr.

Jeffreys speaks of a person who, to stop diarrhea, introduced into his rectum a piece of wood measuring seven inches.
There is a remarkable case recorded of a stick in the anus of a man of sixty, the superior extremity in the right hypochondrium, the inferior in the concavity of the sacrum.

The stick measured 32 cm.

in length; the man recovered.

It is impossible to comprehend this extent of straightening of the intestine without great twisting of the mesocolon.
Tompsett mentions that he was called to see a workman of sixty-five, suffering from extreme rectal hemorrhage.