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Jamjoon, Mohammed, and Saad Abedine. “Saudis Order 40 Lashes for Elderly Woman for Mingling.”
CNN.com/world
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Kerr, Alexander Creighton.
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New York: Pergamon Press, 1961.

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Experimental Physiology
76: 347–355 (1991).

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Journal of Hand Surgery
(British and European volume) 16 (4): 431–435 (November 1991).

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Read, Bernard E.
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,
from the Pen Ts’ao Kang Mu by Li Shih-chen, A.D. 1597.
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Robinson, Nicholas.
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London: A. & C. Corbett, 1763.

Romão, Paula M. S., Adilia M. Alarcão, and Cesar A. N. Viana. “Human Saliva as a Cleaning Agent for Dirty Surfaces.”
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Psychological Review
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Silletti, Erika M. G.
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. Thesis, Wageningen University, 2008.

7

A BOLUS OF CHERRIES

Altkorn, Robert. “Fatal and Non-fatal Food Injuries among Children (Aged 0–14 Years).”
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
72 (7): 1041–1046 (July 2008).

Gliniecki, Andrew. “Elton John Wins Pounds 350,000 for Libel: Punitive Damages Awarded against ‘Sunday Mirror’ over False Claims about Diet.”
Independent
, November 5, 1993.

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John v. MGN, Ltd.
, QB 586 (1997), 3 WLR 593 (1996), 2 All ER 35 (1996), EMLR 229 Court of Appeal, Civil Division (1996).

Mitchell, James E., et al. “Chewing and Spitting Out Food as a Clinical Feature of Bulimia.”
Psychosomatics
29: 81–84 (1988).

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Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
156 (11): 1120–1122 (November 2002).

Van der Bilt, Andries. “Assessment of Mastication with Implications for Oral Rehabilitation: A Review.
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
38: 754–780 (2011).

Wolf, Stewart.
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Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1947.

8

BIG GULP

“A Shark Story of Great Merit.”
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, December 4, 1896.

Bernard, Claude.
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Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
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Dally, Ann.
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Dalton, J. C. “Experimental Investigations to Determine Whether the Garden Slug Can Live in the Human Stomach.”
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Foster, Michael
. Lectures on the History of Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries.
Cambridge, U.K.: University Press, 1901.

Gambell, Ray, and Sidney G. Brown. “James Bartley—A Modern Jonah or a Joke?”
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24: 325–337 (1993).

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62: 447–454 (1772).

Paget, Stephen.
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Pavy, F. W. “On the Immunity Enjoyed by the Stomach from Being Digested by Its Own Secretion during Life.”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
153: 161–171 (1863).

Reese, D. Meredith. “Medical Curiosity: Alleged Living Reptile in the Human Stomach.”
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
28 (18): 352–356 (June 7, 1908).

Slijper, E. J.
Whales.
New York: Basic Books, 1962. Pp. 284–293.

Spence, John. “Severe Affection of the Stomach, Ascribed to the Presence in It of an Animal of the Laerta Tribe.”
Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
9: 315–318 (July 1813).

Stengel, Alfred. “Sensations Interpreted as Live Animals in the Stomach.”
University of Pennsylvania Medical Bulletin
16 (3): 86–89 (May 1903).

“Swallowed by a Whale.”
New York Times,
November 22, 1896.

Warren, Joseph W. “Notes on the Digestion of ‘Living’ Tissues.”
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
116 (11): 249–252 (March 17, 1887).

9

DINNER’S REVENGE

Bland-Sutton, John. “The Psychology of Animals Swallowed Alive.” In
On Faith and Science in Surgery.
London: William Heinemann, 1930.

Haddad, Farid S. “Ahmad ibn Aby al’Ash‘ath (959 A.D.) Studied Gastric Physiology in a Live Lion.”
Lebanese Medical Journal
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Matshes, Evan W., Kirsten A. Taylor, and Valerie J. Rao. “Sulfuric Acid Injury.”
American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
29 (4): 340–345 (December 2008).

10

STUFFED

Barnhart, Jay. S., and Roger E. Mittleman. “Unusual Deaths Associated with Polyphagia.”
American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
7 (1): 30–34 (1986).

Csendes, Atila, and Ana Maria Burgos. “Size, Volume, and Weight of the Stomach in Patients with Morbid Obesity Compared to Controls.”
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Edwards, Gillian. “Case of Bulimia Nervosa Presenting with Acute Fatal Abdominal Distention.”
Lancet
325 (8432): 822–823 (April 6, 1985).

Glassman, Oscar. “Subcutaneous Rupture of the Stomach; Traumatic and Spontaneous.”
Annals of Surgery
89 (2): 247–263 (February 1929).

Key-Åberg, Algot. “Zur Lehre von der Spontanen Magenruptur.”
Ger-ichtliche und Offfentliche Medicine
3, 1: 42 (1891).

Lemmon, William T., and George W. Paschal Jr. “Rupture of the Stomach following Ingestion of Sodium Bicarbonate.”
Annals of Surgery
114 (6): 997–1003 (December 1941).

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American Journal of Roentgenology
189: 681–686 (2007).

Markowski, B. “Acute Dilatation of the Stomach.”
British Medical Journal
2 (4516): 128–130 (July 26, 1947).

Matikainen, Martti. “Spontaneous Rupture of the Stomach.”
American Journal of Surgery
138: 451–452 (September 1979).

Van Den Elzen, B. D., et al. “Impaired Drinking Capacity in Patients with Functional Dyspepsia: Intragastric Distribution and Distal Stomach Volume.”
Neurogastroenterology and Motility
19 (12): 968 –976 (December 2007).

11

UP THEIRS

Agnew, Jeremy. “Some Anatomical and Physiological Aspects of Anal Sexual Practices.”
Journal of Homosexuality
12 (1): 75–96 (Fall 1985).

Cox, Daniel J., et al. “Additive Benefits of Laxative, Toilet Training, and Biofeedback Therapies in the Treatment of Pediatric Encopresis.”
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Garber, Harvey I., Robert J. Rubin, and Theodore E. Eisestat. “Foreign Bodies of the Rectum.”
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
78 (13): 877–888 (December 1981).

Klauser, Andreas G., et al. “Behavioral Modification of Colonic Function: Can Constipation Be Learned?”
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35 (10): 1271–1275 (October 1990).

Knowlton, Brian, and Nicola Clark. “U.S. Adds Body Bombs to Concerns on Air Travel.”
New York Times
, July 6, 2011.

Lancashire, M. J. R., et al. “Surgical Aspects of International Drug Smuggling.”
British Medical Journal
296: 1035–1037 (April 9, 1988).

Lowry, Thomas P., and Gregory R. Williams. “Brachioproctic Eroticism.”
Journal of Sex Education and Therapy
9 (1): 50–52 (1983).

Schaper, Andreas. “Surgical Treatment in Cocaine Body Packers and Body Pushers.”
International Journal of Colorectal Disease
22: 1531–1535 (2007).

Shafik, Ahmed, et al. “Functional Activity of the Rectum: A Conduit Organ or a Storage Organ or Both?”
World Journal of Gastroenterology
12 (28): 4549–4552 (July 2006).

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, Court of Appeals of Iowa, No. 1-500/10-1750 (2011).

Stephens, Peter J., and Mark L. Taff. “Rectal Impaction following Enema with Concrete Mix.”
American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
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United States v. Delaney Abi Odofin
, 929 F.2d at 60.

United States v. Montoya de Hernandez
, 473 U.S. 531 (1985).

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Gut
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American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
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Yegane, Rooh-Allah, et al. “Surgical Approach to Body Packing.”
Diseases of the Colon and Rectum
52 (1): 97–103 (2009).

12

INFLAMMABLE YOU

Avgerinos, A., et al. “Bowel Preparation and the Risk of Explosion during Colonoscopic Polypectomy.”
Gut
25: 361–364 (1984).

Bigard, Marc-Andre, Pierre Gaucher, and Claude Lassalle. “Fatal Colonic Explosion during Colonoscopic Polypectomy.”
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Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
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“Manure Pit Hazards.”
Farm Safety & Health Digest
3 (4, part 3).

McNaught, James. “A Case of Dilatation of the Stomach Accompanied by the Eructation of Inflammable Gas.”
British Medical Journal
1 (1522): 470–472 (March 1, 1890).

13

DEAD MAN’S BLOAT

Beazell, J. M., and A. C. Ivy. “The Quality of Colonic Flatus Excreted by the ‘Normal’ Individual.”
American Journal of Digestive Diseases
8 (4): 128–132 (1941).

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Greenwood, Arin. “Taste-Testing Nutraloaf.”
Slate
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Kirk, Esben. “The Quantity and Composition of Human Colonic Flatus.”
Gastroenterology
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Levitt, Michael D., et al. “Studies of a Flatulent Patient.”
New England Journal of Medicine
295: 260–262 (July 29, 1976).

Magendie, F. “Note sur les gaz inestinaux de l’homme sain.”
Annales de Chimie et de Physique
2: 292 (1816).

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