The Mutter Museum has, among its protected treasures, one of Philadelphia’s largest collections of swallowed (and eventually retrieved, by medical personnel) objects. (Thanks to Paige Williams for bringing this to our attention.) The museum explains: Chevalier Jackson Collection Chevalier Jackson, MD (1865-1958), was a renowned Philadelphia otolaryngologist and Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. […]
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Human exhaust-pipe found-object registry (2013, in one country)
Thank you to the disturbingly many people who alerted us to this article in Deadspin: What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums This Year? As in past years, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has created a searchable database of emergency room visits around the country. And as in past years, we have trolled the data […]
Frightening things a-fly around MRI machines
The Simply Physics site collects images of things that flew at and into MRI machines, attracted magnetically: DANGER! Flying Objects! Once you’ve been in the MRI field for any length of time, you start hearing all of the various horror stories about thing that have flown into a scanner. Often, newcomers don’t take the real […]
How Exactly Did You Get an Oven Mitt in Your Rectum?
A silicone oven mitt. (NOTE: The oven mitt described in the study was of more traditional design and construction.) When unusual objects turn up in awkward places, that’s not necessarily the end of the story. A doctor who succumbs to embarrassment or simple amusement — and fails to ask how those objects got there — […]