The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish[…].

1) The infamous Rod Stewart sperm-in-the-stomach story that resurfaces every five years or so (we're about due for its return). One time this story resurfaced with Jon Bon Jovi as the unfortunate orgy-goer whose over-enthusiasm for oral sex leads him to the nearest emergency room where he promply has a full litre of sperm stomach-pumped out of him. A friend of mine still swears he saw this on Entertainment Tonite!

he entrails, which are the parts aptest to corrupt

Those were all fictional, but that’s not to say that supertiny spylike gadgetry doesn’t exist.