bezoars

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy notes that persimmons have been identified as causing epidemics of intestinal bezoars, and that up to ninety percent of food boluses that occur from eating too much of the fruit require surgery for removal.

Taste Test: Persimmon - Boing Boing 2009

If I remember correctly unlikely, wearing jeweled and gilded bezoars was fashionable at one time.

Regretsy – Kitty Glitter 2010

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Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007

Arsenite is found to bond to sulfur compounds in the protein of degraded hair, which is a key component in bezoars.

Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007

Too many ailments, such as epilepsy, jaundice and plague were said to be treatable by bezoars, and people began to grow wary of such claims.

Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

Too many ailments, such as epilepsy, jaundice and plague were said to be treatable by bezoars, and people began to grow wary of such claims.

Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007

Originally, bezoars were found in goats living in the mountains of Western Persia.

Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007

Modern examinations of the properties of bezoars by Gustaf Arrhenius and Andrew A. Benson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have shown that they could, when immersed in an arsenic-laced solution, remove the poison.

Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007

Because the Atocha primarily traded in South America, it is assumed these bezoars were extracted from llamas or alpacas, although there are accounts of the Spanish taking them from deer in the New World.

Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007

A group of ten unadorned bezoars was found in a silver canister, apparently being shipped to Spain for more formal treatment.

Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007