Hospital's body of evidence

A Croatian hospital has framed and mounted a selection of objects that have been removed from patients' bodies over the last 80 years.

Needles, buttons, coins, animal bones and even a metal communist red star swallowed by patients have been carefully mounted in display boxes.

They will now be put up on the wall in the main hospital in the southern town of Sibenik.

Doctors decided to limit the display to items swallowed by patients.

They also have a collection of items that patients had asked to be surgically removed after, they claimed, accidentally sitting on them.

These include TV controls, salt pots, sex toys and deodorant cans.

A spokesman for the hospital said: "We started collecting things in the 1930s to show medical students the sort of thing to look for in cases like this.

"And then it became kind of a habit to continue collecting them. Now we've decided to put them on display - or at least part of the collection."