RT Journal
A1 FIREBAUGH IL
T1 BOttle in the rectum
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD July 31
VO LIII
IS 5
SP 383
OP 383
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550050041003e
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550050041003e
AB On the morning of May 31, 1909, a man, aged 46, unmarried, came into my office with this statement: "Doctor, I have a bottle in my bowels." Examination showed a large bottle, one end resting well above the sphineters in the hollow of the sacrum, while the other end could be distinctly felt through the abdominal wall just behind and beneath the navel. The patient stated that he had fallen on the bottle at 10 o'clock the night before. About the only symptoms were an irritation of the bladder, with a desire to pass water every few minutes. He was sent to the Robinson Hospital and made ready for operation.At 10 a. m. an anesthetic was given, a catheter passed into the bladder about a dram of urine drawn, and the sphincters were widely dilated. After an ineffectual effort at extraction with the fingers a