Show RO aorl r rL a 0 HER Sic galar misfortune of nt an india indiana girt girl who had swallowed a pirk pin abarge A large number of physicians who were acquainted with the casse case of verla the 12 year old daughter of frank chrisman a prominent businessman business man of middletown near muncie lad bd were nere una in saying that it was the most peculiar case of the kind on record says the cincinnati enquirer this girl died at her horne home the other evening after terrible suffering for four years when at the age of six years she swallowed a pin she did not suffer any from the effects but her frightened parents summoned a physician who informed them that it was an impossibility to remove the pin but that it w A soon worl work out at some portion of the body two years tears later she commenced suffering with pains in her back and it soon became necessary that she remain in bed A physician was called but could not explain the tha cause of the pain other physicians were called and the cause was explained one day when they discovered the point of the pin protruding through her back just below the shoulder blades the physicians removed the pin and from that time until her death her suffering was v continual the pin having worked its way through the spinal pinal column 2 aused mused a separation of the suture connecting the vertebrae which immedi riely rely commenced to decay A hump formed on her back and assumed largo large proportions after her death an examination nini nation was made which revealed that the spinal column had entirely rotted in twain four of the vertebrae being cimpl completely lately gone the ribs were of course disconnected and were floating |