in 1904, Dr. Leroux of the Académie Nationale de Médecine gave a presentation in which he discussed the removal of several foreign objects from the stomach of a 22-year-old patient who had swallowed them as part of a series of suicide attempts. These objects were: "two coffee spoons, then six more spoons varying from five to five and one-half inches in length. The last spoons taken out were the smallest and were corroded by the acids of the stomach. This, however, was not the end, for, taking a longer pincer—the stomach being very large—we found the back of an ordinary fork with three prongs, the handle of the same fork broken, another fork handle, the fourth prong of the fork above mentioned, a pin six inches long, a piece of metal seven inches long with a pointed end, two nails, one needle, one knife handle and two knife blades, a thick fork handle, one key, and some small particles of oxidized metal, in all 25 pieces."