The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-03
Abnormal Appetites.

Abnormal Appetites.
At recent meeting of the Societe de Med
ecine of Paris, reported in Gazette des HOpi
tau1 of September Is, some curious records Of
cases Of foreign bodies in the digestive pas
sages were related. NJ. Lunier cited the case
| of young woman, q maniac, who had several
times tried to commit suicide. On the first
occasion she took decoction of two or three
packets of tobacco, which she boiled for halt
an hour. Another time she swallowed two
quarters of hundred pins, and buried an
other quarter of q hundred in her scalp. FL
nally she procured two hectogrammes (nearly
| half pound) of gun powder, set fire to it, and
placed herself over it. However, none OF
making her i'll. At the end of three months
she was completely cured. NJ. Peter wrote a
work on the migration of foreign bodies in the
digestive passages for which he collected a
number of cases. Some of them are as fol-
lows:
A juggler having swallowed sabre was
brought into the Charlie Hospital. Serious
consequences followed. Adhesive infam ma
ton ensued, resulting in an abscess The
sabre became divided into two parts, and the
extraction was performed in two operations.
A sailor, for halt pint of brandy, swallowed
knife, which caused his death in three days.
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tritis. The knife was found, but the horn
handle had been completely digested, and
there only remained vestiges Of the five or six
blades it contained. Another case was that OF
an hysterical woman, who had swallowed a
packet of needles, Of which three hundred
and ninety-six issued from her breasts, arms,
chest, etc. NJ Reliquet related a case of
strangulated hernia, operated on by N. Mai
sonneuve, in which it was ascertained during
the operation that ell the effects of strangala-
ton had been brought on by the presence of
lark's claw, which had been swallowed by
the patient and had lodged across the intes-
tine.
NJ. Forget drew attention to the prepare
tons presented by NJ. Gallard's house sur
geon, from the body of waiter who, having
entered the hospital on one occasion in conse-
quence of having received some blows on the
chest which brought on some general synp-
toms, left cured Soon after, however, he
again came into the hospital for an abdominal
affection to which he succumbed. At the
necropsy, old adhesions between the peri
cardium and the corresponding wall OF the
lung were found. These Vwo organs were
held together by pin, of which the point
issued into the interior of the pericardium,
where it was perfectly free. It but rarely
touched the heart, on the surface of which
was found a series of concentric curves pro-
duced by the point OF the pin, which inscribed
the hearts movements on itself, just as the
stylet of sphymograph would have done.
This case, besides being very interesting from
physiological point Of view, proves that the
swallowing Of single pin will sometimes
cause death.
On Monday the merchants and business
men Of New Orleans will close their places of
business and give entire time for that day to
the selection at the ballot-box of suitable
rulers. The election is an important one,
and upon the success or failure of the white
people and property owners of the State de-
ponds the future of Louisiana. No one
doubts for moment that if the people of
that State could had fir registration and
fair election, Louisiana would have been
from Radicalism long ago. and
it is possible that if the voters turn out in
full strength and do their whole duty KEEL
logg's miserable thieves will be hurled from
power at the approaching election. Every
white man who has the right to do SO should
vote, even should he be assured of the GER
tainty of defeat and let his voice De recorded
against tho iniquity SO long practiced by the
scoundrels who have polluted the air of Loui-
siana with their foul presence. Let Kellogg,
Packard, Merrill i Co., receive merited re-
buke at the ballot-box, and let no honest |
voter stand back and whine about impossible |
lies. Vicesbury Herald
It is proposed in England to provide sep |
crate cars tor the accommodation of ladies |
travelling alone.S