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they were driven to make use of human gravel, and found to their
astonishment that this was an even more excelÂlent sudorific than the
bezoar itself.35
Although there is no direct relation between bezoars and the hair-balls sometimes found in the stomach or intestines
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human beings, there is some slight analogy, as the animal bezoar
concretions seem to have been formed about a nucleus consisting of some
indigestible material that has been swalÂlowed by an animal. From the
report of hospital surgeons, it appears that these hair-balls, which
result from a long-
" S.
de Vries, " Curieuse Aenmerkingen der byzonderste Oost en West-Indische
Verwonderens-waerdige Dingen," Utrecht, 1682, Pt. II, pp. 912, 913.
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