He found the man very feeble, without pulse, pale, and livid.

By digital examination he found a hard body in the rectum, which he was sure was not feces.

This body he removed with a polyp-forceps, and found it to be a cylindric candle-box, which measured six inches in circumference, 2 1/2 in length, and 1 1/2 in diameter.

The removal was followed by a veritable flood of fecal material, and the man recovered.

Lane reports perforation of the rectum by the introduction of two large pieces of soap; there was coincident strangulated hernia.
Hunter mentions a native Indian, a resident of Coorla, who had introduced a bullock's horn high up into his abdomen, which neither he nor his friends could extract.