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Show Took Collar Button From Lung, A little lad living In East Thirteenth street. New York, while playing around the bouse some time ago, swallowed swal-lowed a gold -plated collar button. Ills mother applied household remedies, but without success. The child was takeu to Itellevue hospital, suffering from pneumonia, which soon developed devel-oped Into pleurisy. An X-ray photograph photo-graph was t aken of the br.y's chest, showing n foreign substnnce In tho j right lung. An aswistnnl In the X- J ray laboratory siwentcd repnoto- , grnpblng tbe lad, tis'rg a more hljrti- j ly eennltlrcd plate. I bis was done j and the print showed the collar button but-ton plainly. An nrwrrtlon was then ! performed on lb" l :y. A three-Inch j Incision was niaCn over the lung ind the button removed eicccsfully. The ; Operating sm ;! lias the boy's j mother's permiclon to keep tbe but- ; tou and he announced his Intention I of having a watch charm made of It I |