St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-12-29
A CURIOUS CASE.
Mice Earhart Suffers From A
Forgotten Accident.

A needle that had been IN the
system OF Miss NJ. S. Earbart, OF
No, 638 South street, was, without
resort to the surgical knife. removed
from the rear OF that lady's eye.
The circumstances connected with
this strange accident which made
Miss Earhart suffer for years, and
the simple way in which her intense
pains we're relieved are alike almost
The successful phyisi-
c,an was DR.. J. F. Pigott, who lives
in Covington.
Miss Earbart has no recollection
OF the time when the needle found
its way beneath her flesh or in what
manner it entered her body. Chill
dreu often stick pins, needles and
articles up their noses, and 1t IS not
unlikely that when a child she in
nocentlv inserted the needle in her
nose. 1t is hardly possible that
Ahe swallowed it, as the results
would have been necessarily differ
ent and her sufferings wOnld have
come much sooner. There are
numerous cases on record where
children have stuck needles in their
legs 10 come out OF an arm or hand
years later. Small children cry re-
peatedly, and when they are really
suffering with PAIN pare ITS think
NO more OF it than at any other time.
In this way the needle becomes i'm
beded in the flesh, the wound heals
and the needle is lost to sight, often
to feeling, too.
It was several years ago when
Miss Earhart felt the FIRST twinge Of
pain in her left eye. At the time
she Thought che had neuralgia.
Later it grew worse and she be-
lieved then that she was troubled
With IN abscess. She tried a num-
Der of home remedies, but withou.
benefit. She continued to suffer,
and the physicians whom she con-
sulted we're 1t . loes to account for
the fact that her malady did not
yield to time-tried and tested teme-
dies. She rapidly grew worse and
for . long time suffered the keenest
agony. She believed that che was
slowly losing the sight OF one Of her
eyes, The pain was directly be-
hind the left eve. The optic was
distended aud she WAS unable to see
out of it. Her health broke under
the strain, and in the hope that the
bracing air OF the country contin-
gent to Covington would invigorate
and repair her pain-racked body
she went acroes the lake. For sew
sral days she felt better, the bal
sonic atmos phere having benefited
her general health. but it was not
long before her suffering returned
ten-fold. A few weeks ago she
called 10 nr. J F. PiQott. He ex-
amined her eye and told Immediately
that he thought there was come
foreign substance behind the eye.
He asked her II when child she
had ever stuck any shot or button
up her nose. Miss Earhart could
remember no such happening. Dr..
PiRott told the sufferer he would
use m old-fashioned remedy tenta-
lively, and that II che got no relief
she would have to come to the city
and BE- operated upon.
The next morning he decided to
battle her nose and the upper part
Of her throat with hot water. After
the third application with hot water
what Miss Earhart and the phvai-
cian, too, thought was . piece Of
bone fell out Of her noee. Upon
examination It vas found to be :
needle eucrusted with blood rust.
The patient began to mend imme-
dlately and has completely re-
gained her health.