objects foreign and domestic

From: Reanimation Library

“When the patient was asked if he himself had introduced the candle into the urethra, he reluctantly admitted that two days previously, while drunk, he had had intercourse with a prostitute whom he could not pay. She in her anger had inserted the candle while he was asleep.”
— Improbable Research
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"The clergyman, in his 50s, told nurses he had been hanging curtains when he fell backwards on to his kitchen table. He happened to be nude at the time of the mishap, said the vicar, who insisted he had not been playing a sex game. The vicar had to undergo a delicate operation to extract the vegetable, one of a range of odd items medics in Sheffield have had to remove from people’s backsides or genitals." — Regretful Morning
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"Suppositories and pessaries in those early days were made with such vehicles or excipients as (1) oils and fats, (2) gums and resins, and (3) honey. Suppositories frequently encased a piece of soft, old linen, which enabled the undissolved mass to be withdrawn. These now have their equivalent in the linted suppository and the Watson-Cheyne bougie. All these forms of medication dropped out of use, at least in good practice, during the eighteenth century."— Chest of Books
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