He was chloroformed and placed in the lithotomy position, his buttocks brought to the edge of the bed, and after dilatation of the sphincter, by traction with the fingers and tooth-forceps, the horn was extracted.

It measured 11 inches long.

The young imbecile had picked it up on the road, where it had been rendered extremely rough by exposure, and this caused the difficulty in extraction.
In Nelson's Northern Lancet, 1852, there is the record of a case of a man at stool, who slipped on a cow's horn, which entered the rectum and lodged beyond the sphincter.

It was only removed with great difficulty.
A convict at Brest put up his rectum a box of tools.

Symptoms of vomiting, meteorism, etc., began, and became more violent until the seventh day, when he died.