Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-04-13
SWALLOWED A pY.
n yon Do This Don't Get Scared hui
Keep yonr Wits.
A NEw YoRgER's TERRIBLE EN-
rEHfrNCE.

| tn 1tnuNN y ftNluN fifl utl us Iafliil
more trouble than , oomhiled attack o
the grip. lilo himself IL frantic witt
apprehension. anu W Il his wife. Tit
little McCabes, who are the not nit0
gether Innocent cause OF tDd accident,
have excited tho Sympathy Of tho
neighbOfhOod on North seventh street
10y their noisy grief. Nor IL the inter.
est In the ease confined 10 North
seventh street. Two corps " phys..
clans IN two hospitals have worked
over Peter, Will the result only that
the pin has plunged Into deeper con-
ccalment IN his innermost midst.
Did you ever swallow pin? Prob
ably not, for the dOciors -ay that the
accident u which half u ~ are oncn
careless enough o. uNplsa ourselves
rarely occurs. But IL you haven't you
can have no Idea OF the dreadful time
/ Of II poor Peter hns had since SUNDAY
morning. lie got zap late, AMI began
/ dressing IN hurry, when there 0c.
Currel 10 one OF ihOse little dopit atic
nnnOyaucts which. with the pcrveni.
~ OF inauimatc things, always come
a. the most innpporiunc moments. A
button fluw IN. Peter Il n go1d man,
| and he didn't loss his temper. IL he
I 7AsANf ~ NAAANAk AtfNFAN AhNA'
was no time Tor repairs. Peter hunted
around for pin, aud found one. He
| put II In his mouth for n moment.
Where else can a man carry pin,
anyhow
Just then the four little McCabcs
burst In upon him. He hadn't got over
the annoyance OF losing the button,
and he opened his mouth 10 say some.
thing sharp to the noisy youngsters.
| What II was the little McCabrs didn't
hear, aud Peter has probably forgotten.
Instead OF shouting 10 thcm the chill.
dren suddenly saw their father begin
TO choke aud act very strangely. They
didn't know what TO make of II. The
trouble was that the moment their
father opened his mouth ~ call TO them
lac filled his lungs 10y sudden inhala.
tion, aud quick "a wink tho pin had
been drawn back Into bis throat.
The biggest child. aged o, becamc
convinced presently that his father
wasn't indulging In a wild panlomime
simply for their amusement, and he
called his mother. Peter explained
10 his spouse by vigorous gcs-
lures what had happened. She
IN u woman Of sense aud energy
and she promptly Topped Peter over on
the BID, turned him ON his stomach,
while his head hung over the side, and
hogan pounding his back with n vigor
which made the little McCabc- fly Ia
terror 10 the street. There they howled
Ia chorus until there was danger Of
their alarming tn. neighborhood. In
the mean time their mothers heroic
treatment was proving unavaillng.
Peter bore II until his bones ached aud
he was almost black In the face. The
| pin was stuck right across his throat,
half way down, he signallei to his
wife. She dragged him 10 a window,
| pot his mouth open ~ Wide that his
jaws felt dizlocat.d, and looked for the
| pin. She couldn't see H. She .x.
| plorcd little with her finger. Peter
gagged, and his teeth came together
before she could get her finger out OF
the way.
Then she got n string and began cut.
| dig good-sized chunk from piece
| Of salt pork. Peter saw tho preIar.
ntions and mutcly protested. He was
| becoming half cazei with pain and
terror. He seixel his hat aud coat aud
ran out doors, his wife after him. lie
| meant ~ nnd u doctor. Their Is none
| In the neighbofhOOd aud finally Peter
ran most OF the way 10 "a drug store at
| the corner Of Bedford avenue and
North Sixth street. They tried there
| Ia lind the pin with no better success
than Mrs Peter had had. They easei
his pain by putting cocaine down his
throat. II was plain however, that
only the best Instruments aud GREATEST
| skin could deal successfully with Pc.
| tcr's trouble, No an ambulance was
called aud he WAS taken 10 st Cath.
rino's Hospital.
The surgeons went to work on him,
but for 70 long time without result.
They put lAryugoscoIe Into his
mouth, but discovered nothing. This
instrument consists mainly VI two mir.
for-, ono held over the phnrnyx and
the other In the mouth, by means Of
which light from the outside IL reflect.
cd Into the throat, which thus becomes
visible 10 the operator. Then they In.
troduced an exploring instrument,
which IA pretty sure 10 locate any for.
clgn substance which becomes lodged
In the dsophagus, but nothing could bc
found. Peter declared all the time
that he could plainly feel the pin LAGER.
ating his throat Just back Of the Adams
apple. The doctors kept at II for sew.
eral hours aud about reached the con.
clusion that the pin had been
swallowed and that the pain Peter
complained Of was scratch which
II Ind made In going down. Finally
one OF the surgeons introduced his
finger when Peters mouth had been
plugged open very wide with bits Of
wood between his teeth. The explor-
Ing finger at last felt the pin concealed
Ia fold Of the throat just at the base
OF the tongue. PETERS location OF the
pain further down had deceived the
doctors. AZ soon M II was discovered
the surgeon reached for II with pair OF
iorceps. But, alas, II had been dis.
lodged In discovering II, and before II
could lbs seized the unhappy man had
involuntarily swallowed Il. II hnd
undoubtedly gone TO the stomach this
time, and thore was nothing more that
the doctors could do.
Peter didn't know whether 10 feel 70.
lieved or ~ become morn scared than
ever. The doctors told him 10 20
home anl keep quiet for two or three
days, and that probably the
pin would give him no further
trouble. The pain had gone, 80 at
O'Clock Peter reapprared AT his own
domicilc outwatdly calm but inwanlly
apprchcnslve. Tho comments u hls
wife aud nelghbors again aroused his
fears. lie broke his long fast, aud no
sooner did he swallow the food than he
again felt pain IN his throat. Hethought
he felt tho pin In his breast also, aud
ue becamp tpIrnr sfrtckan ono. ,.,,....