olapsed uterus, and was worn with so little discomfort that she
entirely forgot it until it was forced out of place by a violent
effort. The ball was seven inches in circumference, and covered with
mucus, but otherwise unchanged. Breisky is accredited with the report
of a case of a woman suffering with dysmenorrhea, in whose vagina was
found a cotton reel which had been introduced seven years before. The
woman made a good recovery. Pearse mentions a woman of thirty-six who
had suffered menorrhagia for ten days, and was in a state of great
prostration and suffering from strong colicky pains. On examination he
found a silk-bobbin about an inch from the entrance, which the patient
had introduced fourteen years before. She had already had attacks of
peritonitis and hemorrhage, and a urethrovaginal fistula was found. The
bobbin itself was black. This patient had been married twice, and had
been cared for by physicians, but the existence of a body 3/4 inch long
had never been noticed. Poulet quotes two curious cases: in one a
pregnant woman was examined by a doctor who diagnosticated
carcinomatous degeneration of the neck of the uterus. Capuron, who was
consulted relative to the case, did not believe that the state of the
woman's health warranted the diagnosis, and on further examination the
growth was found to have been a sponge which had previously been
introduced by the woman into the vagina. The other case, reported by
Guyon, exemplified another error in diagnosis. The patient was a woman
who suffered from continuous vaginal hemorrhage, and had been given
extensive treatment without success. Finally, when the woman was in
extreme exhaustion, an injection of vinegar-water was ordered, the use
of which was followed by the expulsion from the vagina of a live leech
of a species very abundant in the country. The hemorrhage immediately
ceased and health returned.

There is a record of a woman of twenty-eight who was suddenly surprised
by some one entering her chamber at the moment she was introducing a
cedar pencil into her vagina. With the purpose of covering up her act
and dissembling the woman sat down, and the shank of the wood was
pushed through the posterior wall of the vagina into the peritoneal
cavity. The intestine was, without doubt, pierced in two of its curves,
which was demonstrated later by an autopsy. A plastic exudation had
evidently agglutinated the intestine at the points of penetration, and
prevented an immed