It had been there for six months and was only removed with great difficulty.
Holmes cites a peculiar case in which the neck of a bottle was found in the vagina of a woman.

One point of the glass had penetrated the bladder and a calculus had formed on this as well as on the vaginal end.
When a foreign body remains in the vagina for a long time and if it is composed of material other than glass, it becomes influenced by the corrosive action of the vaginal secretion.

For instance, Cloquet removed a foreign body which was incrusted in the vagina, and found the cork pessary which had formed its nucleus completely rotted.

A similar instrument found by Gosselin had remained in the vagina thirty-six years, and was incrustated with calcareous salts.

Metal is always attacked by the vaginal secretions in the most marked manner.