e point of the glass had penetrated the
bladder and a calculus had formed on this as well as on the vaginal end.

When a foreign body remains in the vagina for a long time and if it is
composed of material other than glass, it becomes influenced by the
corrosive action of the vaginal secretion. For instance, Cloquet
removed a foreign body which was incrusted in the vagina, and found the
cork pessary which had formed its nucleus completely rotted. A similar
instrument found by Gosselin had remained in the vagina thirty-six
years, and was incrustated with calcareous salts. Metal is always
attacked by the vaginal secretions in the most marked manner. Cloquet
mentions that at an autopsy of a woman who had a pewter goblet in her
vagina, lead oxid was found in the gangrenous debris.

Long Retention of Pessaries, etc.--The length of time during which
pessaries may remain in the vagina is sometimes astonishing. The
accompanying illustration shows the phosphatic deposits and
incrustations around a pessary after a long sojourn in the vagina. The
specimen is in the Musee Dupoytren. Pinet mentions a pessary that
remained in situ for twenty-five years. Gerould of Massilon, Ohio,
reports a case in which a pessary had been worn by a German woman of
eighty-four for more than fifty years. She had forgotten its existence
until reminded of it by irritation some years before death. It was
remarkable that when the pessary was removed it was found to have
largely retained its original wax covering. Hurxthal mentions the
removal of a pessary which had been in the pelvis for forty-one years.
Jackson speaks of a glove-pessary remaining in the vagina thirty-five
years. Mackey reports the removal of a glass pessary after fifty-five
years' incarceration.

There is an account of a young girl addicted to onanism who died from
the presence of a pewter cup in her vagina; it had been there fourteen
months. Shame had led her to conceal her condition for all the period
during which she suffered pain in the hypogastrium, and diarrhea. She
had steadily refused examination. Bazzanella of Innsbruck removed a
drinking glass from the vagina by means of a pair of small obstetric
forceps. The glass had been placed there ten years previously by the
woman's husband. Szigethy reports the case of a woman of seventy-five
who, some thirty years before, introduced into her vagina a ball of
string previously dipped in wax. The ball was effectual in relieving a
pr