they could only be removed by surgical interference: Pencils, sticks of sealing wax, cotton reels, hair pins (and in Italy very commonly the bone pins used in the hair), bodkins, knitting needles, crochet needles, needle cases, compasses, glass stoppers, candles, corks, tumblers, forks, tooth picks, toothbrushes, pomade pots (in a case recorded by Schroeder with a cockchafer inside, a makeshift substitute for the Japanese rin