Erichsen mentions an instance in which a cedar lead-pencil stayed for eight months in the abdominal cavity.

Desgranges gives a case of a fish-spine in the abdominal cavity, and ten years afterward it ulcerated through an abscess in the abdominal wall.
Keetley speaks of a man who was shot when a boy; at the time of the accident the boy had a small spelling-book in his pocket.

It was not until adult life that from an abscess of the groin was expelled what remained of the spelling-book that had been driven into the abdomen during boyhood.

Kyle speaks of the removal of a corn-straw 33 inches in length by an incision ten inches long, at a point about equidistant from the umbilicus to the anterior spinous process of the right ilium.
There are several instances on record of tolerance of foreign bodies in the skin and muscles of the back for an extended period.

Gay speaks of a curious case in which the point of a sheath-knife remained in the back of an individual for nine years.