Baxter describes a man who suffered an injury from a piece of white board which entered his pelvis, and remained in position for sixteen and a half years; at this time a piece of wood 7 1/2 inches long was discharged at stool, and the patient recovered.

Jones speaks of a case in which splinters of wood were retained in the neighborhood of the rectum and vagina for sixteen years, and spontaneously discharged.

Barwell mentions a case in which a gum elastic catheter that had been passed into the vagina for the purpose of producing abortion became impacted in the pelvis for twenty months, and was then removed.
Rupture of the Male Urethra .-- The male urethra is occasionally ruptured in violent coitus.

Frank and the Philosophical Transactions are among the older authorities mentioning this accident.

In Frank's case there was hemorrhage from the penis to the extent of five pounds.