Hospital Reports

this event is at any rate extremely rare, and, unless under peculiar circumstances, would be ascribed to accident, fraud, or mistake. I have, however, seen it, where the parties were far above all suspicion of any intention to deceive, and where the patient was too young and girlish to be the subject of that morbid pruritus, which probably leads to the voluntary iiltroduction of foreign substances per vaginam. As every case is of importance which proves a fact, or points out an obvious source of error, I think the following history is worth recording: