Cappello, Mary. Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them.(Brief article)(Book review)

Cappello, Mary. Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them. New Pr., dist. by Perseus. Jan. 2011. c.304p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 9781595583956. $27.95. MED

Coins, pins, jewelry, seeds, bones, buttons, toys, and utensils are just some of the many items found in the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia's Mutter Museum. Cappello (English, Univ. of Rhode Island; Called Back) seeks to explore and understand how and why these objects and many others were swallowed or inhaled by people. The author examines …