The British edition of The Metro reports (in an article derived from reporting by The Sun: Vicar hospitalised with potato up his bum A vicar claims a potato got stuck up his bottom after he fell on to the vegetable while hanging curtains in the nude. The clergyman, in his 50s, told medical staff at […]
Tag: rectum
A bottle beyond the behind (x-ray)
The New England Journal of Medicine featured this image in October 2010, with the description: A 35-year-old man presented to the emergency department… he was found to be intoxicated… plain-film radiography of the abdomen was performed, and an intact bottle was seen in the rectosigmoid colon. Laparotomy revealed a glass bottle of beer lodged in […]
The Bishop’s rectum, in a museum
The rectum of the Bishop of Durham sits on display in London, awaiting your examination. No longer attached to the bishop, it rests alone inside a glass jar in the Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The museum calls it by the formal name: Object RCSHC/P 192.Visitors can casually admire the […]
Pratt on Recta-tude
Investigator Stephen Pratt writes: I was a bit disturbed to read (in mini-AIR 2010-02): “Dr. Beatrice Golomb will discuss objects she has found in patients’ rectums”. I admit that I have rarely, if ever, thought before of more than one rectum at a time but surely recta would be the more ‘elegant’ way to form […]