Ogle gives an interesting case of foreign body in the rectum of a boy of seventeen.
The boy was supposed to be suffering with an abdominal tumor about the size of a pigeon's egg under the right cartilages; it had been noticed four months before.

On admission to the hospital the lad was suffering with pain and jaundice; sixteen days later he passed a stick ten inches long, which he reluctantly confessed that he had introduced into the anus.

During all his treatment he was conscious of the nature of his trouble, but he suffered rather than confess.

Studsgaard mentions a man of thirty-five who, for the purpose of stopping diarrhea, introduced into his rectum a preserve-bottle nearly seven inches long with the open end uppermost.

The next morning he had violent pain in the abdomen, and the bottle could be felt through the abdominal wall.