Largest collection of ingested objects

The Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection, now housed at the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, contains 2,374 objects swallowed or inhaled by the patients of the American physician and pioneering laryngologist Chevalier Quixote Jackson (1865–1958). "Chevie", as he was known, removed a vast range of foreign objects from the throats, oesophaguses and lungs of his charges during a 75-year-long career. Among the items excised (without anaesthesia) are nails, screws, buttons, dentures, toys, a child's opera glasses, a padlock, a set of rosary beads, crucifixes, poker chips, three squirrel vertebrae and even a miniature trumpet.

Jackson considered his most challenging removal that of four opened and interlocked safety pins, entangled in wool, that had been fed to a nine-month-old baby by her sister; despite the complications, the extraction took him just 36 minutes, 24 minutes and 19 minutes, although this was the longest time he's spent on any procedure. From another child, he extracted 32 different objects.