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Show GIRL SWALLOWS HALF A PAPER OF PUS SHE SUFFERS COMPARATIVELY LITTLE AND WILL RECOVER. New York Physicians Are Interested and Will Have an X-Ray Examination Exam-ination Made This Week. New York, Jan, 18. Medical men i are so interested in the case of Flor-i Flor-i ence Smith, a 15-year-old girl ot Patchogue, L. I., who has swallowed a half a paper of pln6 from which she has suffered comparatively little, that Fhe will be brought to this city this week for an X-ray examination. An account of the case will be published pub-lished in tho Medical Journal. The child sw allowed the pins, . numbering about 100, three weeks ago. and although al-though she complained of palne, physicians phy-sicians say that the protective walls which nature builds in such cases, will probably save her life. A physician speaking of the case, said: "Although about 50 pins are still lodged in the abdominal tract, tho tract does not seem to have been badly affected by them. While the points of the pins have unquestionably perforated the tract, the heads of tho pins seem to have stopped up the perforations. per-forations. Nature, as far as we can judge, Is al30 building adhesive walls around the points of the pins. The copper and zinc of the pins may cause Miss Smith to suffer from chronic an-fcmia an-fcmia and debility all her life. But she will nevertheless get well." |