Nail in Chicken Gizzard

Abstract

To the Editor: —The following account may prove of interest: I have before me, on my desk, a dried chicken gizzard which has been opened and cleaned in the usual manner. Through the thick part of one half is a round aperture, ⅛ of an inch in diameter—in the dried specimen—at the internal opening and ¼ of an inch in diameter on the external surface. Through this aperture extends a six-penny box nail, its head being on the internal surface of the gizzard. The head of the nail and the portion of it within the wall of the viscus are much corroded. The history of the curiosity, given me with the specimen, is as follows: The fowl from which the organ was taken was one of a flock of three dozen slaughtered at the age of about five months. Under ordinary observation with the rest of the flock no signs