Needles, buttons, coins, animal bones and even a metal communist red star swallowed by patients have been carefully mounted in the collection boxes and are now to be put up on the wall in the main hospital in the southern town of Sibenik.
But doctors decided to limit the collection items that were swallowed. They also have a collection of items that patients had asked to be surgically removed from the other end after in most cases accidentally sitting on them. These include TV controls, salt pots, sex toys and deodorant cans.
A spokesman for the hospital said: "We started collecting things in the 1930s to show medical students the sort of thing to look for in cases like this. And then it became kind of a habit to continue collecting them. Now we've decided to put them on display – or at least part of the collection."
5 comments:
"Accidentally" sitting on them?
What! No bottle rockets?
They have an old collection on a wall at the sick kids hospital in Toronto too. This must be a common practice.
Salt pots?
There's an antique collection like this in a pair of cabinets at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. It's one of my favorite parts of the place. In that collection it's all from nasal or throat obstructions. Some of the things make you wonder how people got them in there.
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