A 45-year-old prisoner violently inserted a 30 cm bottle into his rectum in the prison. He complained of lower abdominal fullness and inability to pass stool. His vital signs were stable and the abdominal examination did not reveal any peritoneal sign. Multiple longitudinal ulcer like anal fissures were also remarkable in different positions of the anal wall extending to the rectum. Attempts we...

A new, clear-plastic nonvented aerobic FA bottle, designed to prevent breakage, has been developed for the BacT/ALERT blood culture system. We assessed the new plastic FA bottle by comparing its performance with that of the current glass FA bottle for recovery of microorganisms and time to detection of growth in blood samples obtained for culture from adult patients with suspected bloodstream i...

Shake a bottle of champagne and pop it open. The champagne will shoot out in a mini-eruption. Do the same to a bottle of beer. Beer will ooze out more slowly. If a bottle of champagne or beer is opened without perturbation, there will be no eruption, but bubbles will rise and grow, often in regularly spaced “trains” (FIG. 1). In Guinness beer, bubbles rise more slowly and may even sink. The myr...