Show has mania for eating metal a man swallows chain over one foot long middletown N Y most remark able case of append bitis and one which will be written of and comment ed on in all the surgical and medical journals of the country Is reported from the middletown state hospital for the insane A few adib ago a oung man named edward green was committed to the hospital from monroe the young man appeared to be and on being examined by the physicians a pain was discovered on the right side in the region of the veri form appendix an operation was decided on the appendix was greatly distended around an iron bolt which was fully five inches in length the bolt had apparently been in the appendix tor some time it had caused serious suppuration and inflammation which had spread to the adjacent parts of the intestines the youna man add a mania for swallowing pieces of metal among them being a plated chain over a foot long which he took from a bath tub this he succeeded in getting rid of green Is in a serious condition |