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Show FROG IN BABY'S STOMACH Tadpole Grew and Waxed Fat on tho Infant's Milk Diet Child la Dead. Tho eightoon-months-old clllld of Mrs. Harry Wolf of Chicago is dead, following an operation which dlsoteaed conditions that many surgeons had declared de-clared to bo impossible, says a Goshen (Ind.) dlspntch to tho Indianapolis Star. Whllo visiting her parents in Syracuse, Syra-cuse, Kosciusko county, last summor, Mrs. Wolf permitted tho baby to drink hydrant water. Within a short time the Infant became sickly and lost flesh. Treatment for indigestion was given,, but it did not reach tho seat of the trouble. Thon an X-ray examination disclosed a black spot on tho stomach, and an operation resulted In a frog weighing moro than half a pound being be-ing taken from tho Infant. Doctors who operated said they bo-lloved bo-lloved that when tho child drank hydrant hy-drant water in Syracuso a tadpolo was taken Into tho stomach and that the fiog dovclobcd and lived on milk, which was given tho patient In largo quantities. Following tho operation tho child improved rapidly and com-pleto com-pleto recovery was practically assured, when pneumonia dovoloped, causing death. |