Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-08
WHAT FLESH Is HEIR TO.
INCREDIBLE ACCIDENTS WHICH
HAVE BEFALLEN MOETALS.

they not been given to us upon tn,
highest authority.
A very curious and almost incredi.
bic case was that of woman in Soutl
Carolina who had live snake in hel
arm. This case was related to me b,
n reputable physician in Charleston
and had he not vouched for it | should
not have given it credence. Wher
the woman, who is of prominent
family, first had her attention attracted
to her arm it was by bow-shapet
welt, not more than two inches long.
1t grew to foot in length and as large
as a lead pencil.
In the London Lancet some years
ago case was detailed of an idiot boy,
from whose body was extracted guam.
titles of slate pencil, from one to two
and half inches long; bits of stick,
pieces of rag and fragments of wool.
The boy speedily recovered.
u Professor Agnew tells of case oi
an insane woman, in whose body was
found after death pair of suspenders,
several skeins of silk, three spools OF
cotton and two roller bandages.
DR.. Drewry, of the Virginia LIunatic
Asylum, gives the details of very ex.
traordinary case. The lunatic was a
large, robust looking colored woman,
forty-siX years old, who for a long
time had suffered from a disorder that
led the doctor to suspect the presence
of foreign substances in her body.
Astonishing as it may seem, 'job
lot" of things, weighing, after having
been taken out, niuety-seven ounces,
proved the correctness of the doctors
suspicious. 1t was n remarkable col.
lection, indeed, and embraced such
delicacies as bits of stone, glass, slate,
brick, buttons, fruit parings and clay.
That the woman had swallowed them
was proven by investigation.
DIR. Hashimoto, Surgeon. General OF
the japanese army, tells of woman,
forty-nine years old, who, in May,
1872, accidentally swallowed Japan
csc toothbrush. In March, 1873, an
abscess formed in the stomach region,
which finally burst, and from it ex-
tended the pointed end of the brush.
The physician, after vainly attempt
ing to extract the brush, contented
himself with cutting off the projecting
portion. Although the opening healed
after this, disagreeable feeling con
tinuol. Thirteen years later-in
August, lSS6-the pain and swelling
returned, and about two months later
another abscess formed On admis-
sion to the hospital, in October, 1883,
two openings were found in the
stomach region. at the bottom of one
of which the probe came in contact
with the foreign body. Finally, on
November 10, 1888, the patient was
put under the influence of ether, one
OF the openings was enlarged and the
brush extracted. Five weeks later the
openings had all healed and the patient
was restored to perfect health.
DIR. John b. Tyler, of Kansas, Mo-,
relates case OF IL nun who, after aris-
ing in tho morning, blew his nose
violently, and to his horror his left
eye popped out of the socket. With
the assistance OF his wife it was i'm.
mediatoly replaced aud bandage tied
firmly over it. He then saw DR..
Tyler, who found the upper lid much
swollen and slightly discolored, but
there was no hemorrhaGe.
An English jury, some years ago,
wrestled with the question whether a
man can cough himself to pieces. Evi.
dence was adduced to show that under
certain abnormal conditions of health
bones may be broken during life by
muscular efforts or by violent cough
ing. In the case that was submitted
to the jury it was proven that the
patient, who at the time the accident
occurred was an inmate of an infirm
ary, had, owing to violent and pro.
longed fit of coughing, fractured
several ribs
Swallowing the tongue is another of
the strange accidents that medical
men have met with, and cases arc on
record where suffocation has been
caused by this accident. Some of these
cases OF tongue swallowing occurred
while the individuals were sleeping.
Spontaneous combustion of the hui
man body is still doubted by some
iH-N'-S't' hIOLs tOu II ~ COuCGUGtl UlluU
there occasionally occurs nn abnormal
ly increased combustibiity of the body,
which may account for cases of alleged
spontaneous ignition. In n work on
spontaneous combustion DIR. Ogden
asserts that of thirty-fve authors who
hayo treated of this subject five were
entirely sceptical, three believed in
increased combustibility only anG
twenty-seven believed in spontaneous
ignitability as well.
DIR. Clendenen, Coroner of La Sale
County, Illinois, relates peculiar
cnse OF spontaneous combustion. He
was telephoned to go to Seneca, vii
lage in the county to hold an inquest
on the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. r. who
were found dead in their farm house
On arrival he impanellcd Jury of the
most intelligent citizens, one of whom
was physician. The first thing that
attracted special attention was the
peculiar sichening odor which peryad.
ed everything in and about the large
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