lowed its collar and chain,
only imperfectly masticating the collar. The chain and collar were
immediately missed and search made for them. For several days the dog
was ill and refused food. Finally the gamekeeper saw the end of the
chain hanging from the dog's anus, and taking hold of it, he drew out a
yard of chain with links one inch long, with a cross bar at the end two
inches in length; the dog soon recovered. The collar was never found,
and had apparently been digested or previously passed.

Fear of robbery has often led to the swallowing of money or jewelry.
Vaillant, the celebrated doctor and antiquarian, after a captivity of
four months in Algiers, was pursued by Tunis pirates, and swallowed 15
medals of gold; shortly after arriving at Lyons he passed them all at
stool. Fournier and Duret published the history of a galley slave at
Brest in whose stomach were found 52 pieces of money, their combined
weight being one pound, 10 1/4 ounces. On receiving a sentence of three
years' imprisonment, an Englishman, to prevent them being taken from
him, swallowed seven half-crowns. He suffered no bad effects, and the
coins not appearing the affair was forgotten. While at stool some
twenty months afterward, having taken a purgative for intense abdominal
pain, the seven coins fell clattering into the chamber. Hevin mentions
the case of a man who, on being captured by Barbary pirates, swallowed
all the money he had on his person. It is said that a certain Italian
swallowed 100 louis d'ors at a time.

It occasionally happens that false teeth are accidentally swallowed,
and even passed through the intestinal tract. Easton mentions a young
man who accidentally swallowed some artificial teeth the previous
night, and, to further their passage through the bowel, he took a dose
of castor oil. When seen he was suffering with pain in the stomach, and
was advised to eat much heavy food and avoid aperients. The following
day after several free movements he felt a sharp pain in the lower part
of his back. A large enema was given and the teeth and plate came away.
The teeth were cleansed and put back in his mouth, and the patient
walked out. Nine years later the same accident again happened to the
man but in spite of treatment nothing was seen of the teeth for a month
afterward, when a body appeared in the rectum which proved to be a gold
plate with the teeth in it. In The Lancet of December 10, 1881, there
is an account of a vulcanite