ntil the
seventh day, when he died. After death, there was found in the
transverse colon, a cylindric or conic box, made of sheet iron, covered
with skin to protect the rectum and, doubtless, to aid expulsion. It
was six inches long and five inches broad and weighed 22 ounces. It
contained a piece of gunbarrel four inches long, a mother-screw steel,
a screw-driver, a saw of steel for cutting wood four inches long,
another saw for cutting metal, a boring syringe, a prismatic file, a
half-franc piece and four one-franc pieces tied together with thread, a
piece of thread, and a piece of tallow, the latter presumably for
greasing the instruments. On investigation it was found that these
conic cases were of common use, and were always thrust up the rectum
base first. In excitement this prisoner had pushed the conic end up
first, thus rendering expulsion almost impossible. Ogle gives an
interesting case of foreign body in the rectum of a boy of seventeen.
The boy was supposed to be suffering with an abdominal tumor about the
size of a pigeon's egg under the right cartilages; it had been noticed
four months before. On admission to the hospital the lad was suffering
with pain and jaundice; sixteen days later he passed a stick ten inches
long, which he reluctantly confessed that he had introduced into the
anus. During all his treatment he was conscious of the nature of his
trouble, but he suffered rather than confess. Studsgaard mentions a man
of thirty-five who, for the purpose of stopping diarrhea, introduced
into his rectum a preserve-bottle nearly seven inches long with the
open end uppermost. The next morning he had violent pain in the
abdomen, and the bottle could be felt through the abdominal wall. It
was necessary to perform abdominal section through the linea alba,
divide the sigmoid flexure, and thus remove the bottle. The intestine
was sutured and the patient recovered. The bottle measured 17 cm. long,
five cm. in diameter at its lower end, and three cm. at its upper end.

Briggs reports a case in which a wine glass was introduced into the
rectum, and although removed twenty-four hours afterward, death ensued.
Hockenhull extracted 402 stones from the rectum of a boy of seven.
Landerer speaks of a curious case in which the absorptive power of the
rectum was utilized in the murder of a boy of fifteen. In order to come
into the possession of a large inheritance the murderess poisoned the
boy by introducing the ends of s