swallowed his teeth. He had made himself a partial denture...

Snake catcher Tony Harrison of Reptile Relocation And Awareness in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, noticed an unusual bulge in one of his pythons and rushed the snake to a veterinary clinic. Dr. Matt Hollindale confir...

The following is an article from The Annals of Imp...  ...thor reports:The patient gave a history of having swallowed a toothbrush a few hours before, stating that whi...  ...the toothbrush, it slipped from his grasp and was swallowed . According to the patient, “several doctors...  ...o secure hospitaliza...

(Image credit: Andrew Rambo, DVM, Gladstone Animal Clinic, Gladstone, Mo.)The magazine Veterinary Practice News holds an annual x-ray contest, and receives entries illustrating the strange inedible things that pets eat....

When your pooch starts acting weird and not eating or drinking, you know you need to take him to the vet. What you might not know is that he ate something weird when you weren't home. In Petey's case, that something weir...

Laci Davis, an 8-year-old in Cincinnati, Ohio, accidentally ingested her necklace and heart-shaped locket, which lodged in her throat. The third-grader was in excruciating pain. "It felt like something was stabbing m...

What you see here is an x-ray of a dog that had eaten nine handballs. Veterinarian Vanessa Hawkins of Bayshore Animal Hospital in Warrenton, Oregon removed the balls and then won the annual x-ray competition from the tra...

Dr. Chevalier Jackson was a laryngologist who...  ...f his career retrieving objects that his patients swallowed or inhaled. And he kept them all. He retired with...  ...g his collection that he once refused to return a swallowed quarter, even when its owner threatened his life....

A Dutch medical magazine asked its readers to send in their stories of strange medical cases. One respondent told the tale of Margaret Daalman, who came in to the hospital 30 years ago complaining of a stomach ache. An x...