Show A human balloon albert barrows the six year old son of C J barrows of somers kenosha county wis while running down a hillside on the farm near his home fell upon a stubble and the sharp points entered his left side he went home crying was put to bed and a physician was sent fo for the accident appeared ordinary and the resulting injury trivial but unusual and grave symptoms Symptom a were not long in developing what was first noticed was a slight swelling of the left side of the body this was thought to be merely the sympathetic action of the muscles following the bruise remedies were applied but the swelling continued increasing and extending day by day until the entire body of 0 the child had assumed an abnormal appearance A careful examination showed that the stubble in entering the body had passed between the ribs and entered the lungs it was the air from this organ that was vas escaping and finding its way under the skin was gradually swelling it out to terrible proportions the lad became puffed out to twice his former size it is a very uncommon case and has attracted much attention in tho the medical world tho the swelling is ot of the form which occurs in a person afflicted with dropsy except that the swelling Is lone done not by fluid but by air the the air breathed into the lungs instead of finding exit in the ordinary way escapes through the tiny punctures mado made in the lung by the stubble from the lung tho the air find its way to the millions ot of little colls cells between the muscles and tho the skin |