of this
ingenious contrivance.

Foreign Bodies in the Rectum.--Probably the most celebrated case of
foreign body introduced into the rectum is the classic one mentioned by
Hevin. Some students introduced the frozen tail of a pig in the anus of
a French prostitute. The bristles were cut short, and having prepared
the passage with oil, they introduced the tail with great force into
the rectum, allowing a portion to protrude. Great pain and violent
symptoms followed; there was distressing vomiting, obstinate
constipation, and fever. Despite the efforts to withdraw the tail, the
arrangement of the bristles which allowed entrance, prevented removal.
On the sixth day, in great agony, the woman applied to Marchettis, who
ingeniously adopted the simple procedure of taking a long hollow reed,
and preparing one of its extremities so that it could be introduced
into the rectum, he was enabled to pass the reed entirely around the
tail and to withdraw both. Relief was prompt, and the removal of the
foreign body was followed by the issue of stercoraceous matter which
had accumulated the six days it had remained in situ.

Tuffet is quoted as mentioning a farmer of forty-six who, in
masturbation, introduced a barley-head into his urethra. It was found
necessary to cut the foreign body out of the side of the glans. A year
later he put in his anus a cylindric snuff-box of large size, and this
had to be removed by surgical methods. Finally, a drinking goblet was
used, but this resulted in death, after much suffering and lay
treatment. In his memoirs of the old Academy of Surgery in Paris,
Morand speaks of a monk who, to cure a violent colic, introduced into
his fundament a bottle of l'eau de la reine de Hongrie, with a small
opening in its mouth, by which the contents, drop by drop, could enter
the intestine. He found he could not remove the bottle, and violent
inflammation ensued. It was at last necessary to secure a boy with a
small hand to extract the bottle. There is a record of a case in which
a tin cup or tumbler was pushed up the rectum and then passed into the
colon where it caused gangrene and death. It was found to measure 3 1/2
by 3 1/2 by two inches. There is a French case in which a preserve-pot
three inches in diameter was introduced into the rectum, and had to be
broken and extracted piece by piece.

Cloquet had a patient who put into his rectum a beer glass and a
preserving pot. Montanari removed from the rectum of a m