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Show OPEN HUMAN TOOUHEST Surgeons Find Odd Assortment As-sortment of Things in . . Man's Stomach v Chicago, Sept. 7 When physicians operated en John Mariner at the county hospital to ascertain the cause of "terrible pains in his stomach," stom-ach," they found nineteen pocket knives, seventeen nails, five knife blades, a dosen screws and silver dollar. For eighteen 'vears, Marlnor. who has been known "lo Chicagoans as "the hucan tool chest," swallowed the articles on wagers. "Eating knives and all that stuff never hurt me," said Mariner before the operation, "but sometimes I'd get terrible pains In my stomach." Physicians pronounced the operation opera-tion as successful Mariner In 30 years old and a laborer The pocket knives, screws nails and other articles removed from Mariner's stomach were mounted on cardboard by Superintendent D. P. Teters of the hospital and placed on exhibition at the institution. All of the articles were lodged in a corner of the stomach, according to the surgeon who operated on Mariner "An ulcer had formed and the man would have died within a month if he had not been operated upon." Ten of the knives taken from Mariner's Mar-iner's stomach had been bone-handled, but the bone had been dissolved by gastric juices. The wooden handled han-dled knives were intact. The ailver dollar which he swallowed swal-lowed ten years ago was as bright as If the coin had just come from the mint. The Juices of the stomach had kept tho silver In a highly polished pol-ished condition. Some of te knife-blades knife-blades were rusty. |