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Pretty sure he got enough iron in his diet. Side note: don't try this at home...or anywhere.
Sep 28, 2023 3:59 PM
PrinceOfWhales
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Pretty sure he got enough iron in his diet. Side note: don't try this at home...or anywhere.
Awmph
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539548/
Heelcat70
He was quite the cut-up.
Freak0zoid
1799 plus 6 years is not 1809.
WhisperFireNow
It's weird, but the longer it takes you to die from doing something stupid the more impressive it becomes. "He swallowed a knife and died." "Well, duh." "It took ten years." "No shit!?"
oilyanaldischarge
This is another good one! +1
hackller
before he died, was he all cut up about it?
PrinceOfWhales
Not sure, but I'm guessing his parents cut him off.
BishlamekGurpgork
This is a sketch of all the shit they found in his necropsy. Linked, not uploaded, to preserve the source and caption. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539548/figure/fig2/
PrinceOfWhales
Great find. Thank you for sharing.
dixxienormus
He won't do that again.
Fruc
I’d she he was LITERALLY the sharpest. But a tool none the less.
Wright2k
GuitarBobMonterey
Remember, they thought then that you needed whiskey, morning, noon, and night.
mokzin
Imagine he got captured in a battle and was tied up. He would be so full of knives. All his comrades are worried but he would look calm as fuck and they'd ask why. And he'd be like. You're not going to believe this.
BishlamekGurpgork
Fixed-blades? Folded-up folding knives? What are we talking here?
grandieslememes
Bro needed to cut his diet
meganical
Someone call MythBusters if they’re still around
UWantSumFuk
There's a French dude who ate a straight up airplane so I don't think this is all that far fetched
AnonymousBach
I mean given the state of diet, hygiene and medical knowledge of the time, his death might have been unrelated.
oilyanaldischarge
Even though he got enough iron, maybe they "Bled" him to death. They liked to do it at that time. Then again, it could be some metaliurgic hysterics?
oilyanaldischarge
DARWIN AWARD!
Kyzyl
At least he died doing something he enjoyed.
Notmybeardedladynotmycarnival
Pooping knives
Awmph
While stationed in France in 1799 he had watched a mountebank pretending to swallow knives in a circus near Havre de-Grace. He later bragged that he could do this in reality, and his shipmates wagered he could not. He swallowed four knives with no obvious ill effect, although ***only three of the four were seen again.***
DaffydeDick
Doc, I'm constipated and I'm getting these sharp pains coming out of my ass.
pangolinx
For a lot more (interesting!) detail - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539548/
mihaistnc
idontknowyoufromadam
He should have cut it out sooner ...
thedarkcanuck
Well sometimes you just gotta find something you love and take a stab at it, you know?
spidermenz
commentsivehadafew
The inventor of the poop knife
professorEMT
Kyzyl
Knife-poop.
dalaiyoda
Yo dawg, I heard you like poop-knives so I etc etc
JacobsJ52
Inventor of the pooped knife.
snrsquishy101
You are supposed to use the knife ON the poop not turn the knife IN to poop
MillenniumFalcon
ah, this takes me back to when this site wasn't total crap. it's always been crap, but just a little less then.
nclu
tbf, there used to be a lot more casual racism. that's been a real improvement
winternal
The math doesn't quite add up though
BishlamekGurpgork
Performing this trick over the next six years just means that he stopped after six years, but he still died four years later.
apLundell
Perhaps he eventually figured out that eating knives was a bad idea. I'll bet he had all kinds of weird pains. Bits of half-digested pocket knives were bouncing around in him for years. Getting lodged in places, poking into things that aren't supposed to be poked.
noahklicks
Knife in the pic is The Henry made by WESN, if anyone is curious. I have one and it's really well made. Link to their site below.
noahklicks
https://wesn.com/products/henry
Skuggen
Side note: He died after being savaged by a bear because he swallowed the knife he needed to defend himself.
oilyanaldischarge
Ha! I like that twist! +1
wherethehorriblethingsare
Sadly he was not trained in bearhanded combat.
MoonMoon89
So he passed ten years later? Actually, I'm fairly certain that wasn't the only thing he passed...
hotrodny
His poops were cutting edge...literally
jackal696
1809 yeah maybe it wasn't the knife that killed him
Raenon
I swear, it's gonna be the hamster with a magnet stuck to the cage all over again....
pangolinx
"The necropsy was conducted by Mr Travers, surgeon (..) The abdominal cavity was noted to have a 'black ferruginous' tinge from the iron knives. A knife blade and spring were found in the intestines. The spring had eroded through into the peritoneum, transfixing the colon near the left kidney but without causing peritonitis. The blade was wedged across the rectum, its end embedded in the pelvic wall. Thirty to forty fragments of wood, metal and horn were found when the stomach was opened."
likeabowser
viila
He doesn't know how insanely lucky he was. Perforated intestine is insanely deadly and before antibiotics quite untreatable. Pray and hope.
RevolutionOnHerLips
so many things clenched when I read that
pangolinx
There are drawings of what they pulled out of him too, crazy. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539548/
WhereIsMyAppleQuava
Thank you for link, I look forward to horrifying reading
ILikeToFindTheAnswers
That was an interesting read. Thanks for posting it
PTNLemay
Just... how? How do you discover you have this "skill"?