e hospital in October,
1888, two fistulous openings were seen in the epigastric region, and
the foreign body was located by probing. Finally, on November 19, 1888,
the patient was anesthetized, one of the openings enlarged, and the
brush extracted. Five weeks later the openings had all healed and the
patient was restored to health.

Garcia reports an interesting instance of foreign body in a man between
forty-five and fifty. This man was afflicted with a syphilitic
affection of the mouth, and he constructed a swab ten inches long with
which to cleanse his fauces. While making the application alone one
day, a spasmodic movement caused him to relinquish his grasp on the
handle, and the swab disappeared. He was almost suffocated, and a
physician was summoned; but before his arrival the swab had descended
into the esophagus. Two weeks later, gastro-peritoneal symptoms
presented, and as the stick was located, gastrotomy was proposed; the
patient, however, would not consent to an operation. On the
twenty-sixth day an abscess formed on the left side below the nipple,
and from it was discharged a large quantity of pus and blood. Four days
after this, believing himself to be better, the man began to redress
the wound, and from it he saw the end of a stick protruding. A
physician was called, and by traction the stick was withdrawn from
between the 3d and 4th ribs; forty-nine days after the accident the
wound had healed completely. Two years afterward the patient had an
attack of cholera, but in the fifteen subsequent years he lived an
active life of labor.

Occasionally an enormous mass of hair has been removed from the
stomach. A girl of twenty a with a large abdominal swelling was
admitted to a hospital. Her illness began five years previously, with
frequent attacks of vomiting, and on three occasions it was noticed
that she became quite bald. Abdominal section was performed, the
stomach opened, and from it was removed a mass of hair which weighed
five pounds and three ounces. A good recovery ensued. In the Museum of
St. George's Hospital, London, are masses of hair and string taken from
the stomach and duodenum of a girl of ten. It is said that from the age
of three the patient had been in the habit of eating these articles.
There is a record in the last century of a boy of sixteen who ate all
the hair he could find; after death his stomach and intestines were
almost completely lined with hairy masses. In the Journal of the