She had steadily refused examination.

Bazzanella of Innsbruck removed a drinking glass from the vagina by means of a pair of small obstetric forceps.

The glass had been placed there ten years previously by the woman's husband.

Szigethy reports the case of a woman of seventy-five who, some thirty years before, introduced into her vagina a ball of string previously dipped in wax.

The ball was effectual in relieving a prolapsed uterus, and was worn with so little discomfort that she entirely forgot it until it was forced out of place by a violent effort.