Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-07-16 | Page 7 | Frog in Baby's Stomach

FROG IN BABY'S STOMACH Tadpole Grew and Waxed Fat on the Infant's Milk Diet Child Is Dead. The elghteen-months-old child of Mrs. Harry Wolf of Chicago Is dead, following an operation which disclosed conditions that many surgeons had declared de-clared to be Impossible, says a Goshen (Ind.) dispatch to the Indianapolis Star. While visiting her parents in Syracuse, Syra-cuse, Kosciusko county, last summer, Mrs. Wolf permitted the 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. the seat of the trouble. Then an X-ray examination disclosed a black spot on the stomach, and an operation resulted in a frog weighing more than half a pound being be-ing taken from the infant. Doctors who operated said they believed be-lieved that when the child drank hydrant hy-drant water In Syracuse a tadpole was taken into the stomach and that the frog developed and lived on milk, which was given the patient in large quantities. Following the operation the child Improved rapidly and complete com-plete recovery was practically assured, when pneumonia developed, causing death.