Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 June 1933 — Persimmon Bezoar [ARTICLE]

Persimmon Bezoar

A bezoar is any of various concretions found chiefly in the alimentary organs of certain ruminants, and sometimes man. Formerly these concretions were supposed to have remarkable medical properties, especially as antidotes to poison. A persimmon bezoar is one of these stomach balls, something like a hair ball from the stomach of a butchered cow, resulting from eating persimmons. Some of the skin, pulp and seed are not digested and form into a persimmon bezoar, or stomach ball, which may necessitate an operation to remove it.