Show REMARKABLE SURGICAL FEAT A remarkable operation was performed performed per- per formed ormed recently at Kings King's College hospital hos- hos pital London a shawl pin being successfully successfully successfully suc suc- removed from a patients patient's lungs The patient a young married wom woman n. n was holding a shawl pin 1 13 Inches long in her mouth when something something some some- thing made her laugh and the pin vanished down her throat An examInation examination examination exam exam- by X rays showed that the pin lay just below the right breast The patient was placed under chlo chlo- and cocaine was applied to the internal parts of the throat I Brunings Bruning's telescopic tube was then introduced introduced in in- I when the pin was found in inthe inthe the main maim bronchus The pin was Immediately Im immediately im- im I mediately y seized with a pair of forceps and withdrawn through the mouth The patient returned home two days daya later and has remained perfectly well since the operation |