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A stool which the patient had just passed and which had been saved because neither she nor the staff-nurse had ever seen anything resembling it was a bulky well-formed stool which resembled exactly, in colour and appearance, the aluminium paint which is commonly sprayed on pipes and radiators.
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and died of bronchopneumonia a few days after the operation. On the morning of his death the sister of the ward called my attention to a stool which the patient had just passed and which had been saved because neither she nor the staff-nurse had ever seen anything resembling it. It was a bulky well-formed stool which resembled exactly, in colour and appearance, the aluminium paint which is commonly sprayed on pipes and radiators. It was not merely grey in colour but had a definite metallic lustre. I was at a loss to explain the phenomenon but had a colour photograph of the specimen taken, and, as it was not repeated, was unable to investigate it further.