Stephenson gives an account of a pin which was finally voided by the bladder after forty-two years' sojourn in a lady's body.

On November 15, 1802, the celebrated Dr.Lettsom spoke of an old lady who sat on a needle while riding in a hackney coach; it passed from the injured leg to the other one, whence it was extracted.
Deckers tells of a gentleman who was wounded in the right hypochondrium, the ball being taken thirty years afterward from the knee.

Borellus gives an account of a thorn entering the digit and passing out of the body by the anus.
Strange as it may seem, a prick of a pin not entering a vital center or organ has been the indirect cause of death.

Augenius writes of a tailor who died in consequence of a prick of a needle between the nail and flesh of the end of the thumb.

Amatus Lusitanus mentions a similar instance in an old woman, although, from the symptoms given, the direct cause was probably tetanus.