The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-03-11

felt a sharp pain, like lightning i'll the
tissues, and on looking at the place at
which this pain had been felt the head of
the needle was generally found project
ed. The needle invariably came out
headforemoSt. No bleeding was ncca
stoned, and not the least trace of inilam-
nation followed. That little weight is
to be attached to the place at which the
needles escape as proof of their mode
of introduction is evident from a case re-
corded by Nillars of girl who swallow
ed Il large number of pins and needles.
and two years afterwards, during per-
iod of nine months, 200 passed out of the
hand, arm, axiila, side OF thorax, abdo-
men and thigh, all on the left side. The
pins. curiCusly. escaped more readily and
with less pain than the needles. Many
years ago 4 case was recorded by DR..
| Otto. Of Copenhagen, in which 49, need
les passed through the skin Of 4 hysteri-
cal girl, who had probably swallowed
! them during hystarical paroxysm: but
these all emerged in regions below the
level Of the diaphragm and were collect
! ell in groups, which gave rise to inilam-
matory swelling of some size. One of
| these contained 100 needles. In 1880, DR..
| Bigger described before the Society of
| Surgery of Dublin case in which more
than 800 needles were removed from the
y ;,,l ,,,o
of their presence 1t is very remarkable
in how few cases the needles We're the
cause of death. and how slight an inter
ference with function their presence and
movement cause. ". Henri de parville.
the well known French writer on science
has described many cases of this sort. not
few of them of sane persons. NJ. Ber-
enger-Feraud took needle froTl the arm
of Il woman oC twenty four. who did not
recellect swallowing it.and had for weeks
been unable to understand why she felt a
pricking sensation whenever she rested
her arm on the table. Another case is
that of girl of sixteen who was dying
from sastritiS. it was thought, till exam
ination revealed the presence Of a needle
swallowed by accident. she knew not
when.
What became of the rash youth of Boz
logna who to show how n juggler swal
lowed a sword. introduced silver fork
into his throat and let it slip down we do
not know. He probably went to meet
the swallowers Of false teeth. Brunei.
the great engineer, had a narrow escape
once upon a time, when amusing some
children by causing a half sovereign to
vanish from his mouth and reappear in
his ear. the coin suddenly slipping down
into his gullet. There it stuck. Every
surgical device was tried to get hold OF
it without avail. 1t became evident that
if the coin could not be dis.od ged, fata
results would enSue. In the dire dilem-
ma into which he had needlessly brought
himself, Brunei devised a wooden struc-
ture to which he could be strapped head
downward. in the hope that the half SOW
ereign would fall ont of his throat by the
force of gravity. He was fixed to the
machine head downward keeping his
mouth open. To his in xpressible relief,
the coin dropped from its lurking place
and rolled to the floor. A German jug
gler who had introduced variation of
the swori-swallowing feat by swallowing
a bayouet and balancing thereon the
to grief under even more alarming cir
cumstances, as the weapon broke short
off and the steel slipped down into his
gullet. He acted on the same principle
as Brunei and promptly inverted himself.
and with the aid of two friends stood
feet upwards till by force of gravity. the
bayonet dropped to where it could be
reached from the mouth and drawn. In
March, 1881, the surgeons at the Edin-
burgh Infirmary relieved a woman of a
brass paddock, an inch III width, which
she had swallowed Four years ago they
were less fortunate in the case of boy
who had swallowed piece of brass chain,
and in 1880 child in Devonshire was
vainly treated who had allowed small
tin whistle to slip from the mouth into
the trachea. Since the introduction of
the balloon whistle there have been sew
eral fatal accidents from-by inhaling in
stead of expelling the breath to fill the
balloon-swalom ing the whistle and in
dia rubber sack attached to it, about the
ugliest thing imaginable to deal with.
since the toy sticks in the windpipe, and
every attempt to breathe tends to initiate
the balloon and so the sufferer is choked
as promptly and ineSorably as if he were
in the grasp of garotte. Tie moral of
all which is that people should be care
full about putting solid substances in
their mouths.-Ner York World.