SWALLOWED HER TEETH.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 29 January 1887, Page 4

SWALLOWED HER TEETH.

PumpUlu :.Plo an<l Artificial Molars Go Down at Once, M;s Henhy Leu, of 217, River street, who tho othor day swallowed liar fal.^o tocth, is s ifforing intense p.iin. It was while eating a yicco of pumpkin pio that tho teeth loopened from tho plato, slipped down her throat and lodged in tho vicinity of Adam's apple. Whon sho discovered that hor teeth woro lodged in her throat sho pressed both hands to hor neck to p.-ovont tho baeth from entering lior stomach, aud in doing so imbedded them in her neck in ttuch a way fl h it they would noithor go up nor dow-J. Sho throw herself on n lounga and iv a gasping manuor cubed to hor duughtor, 1"> yoars of :it;\ to hii»!on for a pbysicdun. Not knowing tlio cau-o of Ihiir motlioiV trotlbio, hor live iit-110 children gathcrod around her and roused tho neighbours by their crying Jir.". Noornnd Van Bipor wore summoned, nnd, after making sovor,=l uttompts to reniovo tho ortiiicial molar?, ordorod a convoyanon nnd had tho woman taken to tho hospital. Alter live hours' [-.robing the tooth woro lint>liy fo cod into her ftoinneh. In an hour afterward sho vvns eoi/.ed with griping pains in tho bnwol", which hutod for thrco hours. On Saturday morning pho whs fooling much bettor and requested lo bo tiikon back to hor family. While being convoyed to hor homo sho was again cei/.cd with pains, nnd it was with grout difficulty that pho was kept from throwing liorcolf out ol tho waggon. j When n reporter of tho "Journal" visI ited tier homo in the evoning nho wan lying on 11 lounge with her hnmla profßed against her Bidos, and, judging from tho wild oxpreßsion in hor eyes, s-ho will bo a maniac in lce-s than twenty-four hours ii tho teeth aro not removed from hor f-tomach. At 5 o'clock in tho afternoon sho concluded 1 to walk around tho room, thinking that ' :i lit Ho exorcise would rcliovo her of the ! torrible afiony. Sho had scarcely taken a r do/.en stops when i-ho ecreamed for a»*istanco to tako hor back to tbo lmir.co. All of tho host-known remedies havo been ad- [ ministered to hor, but thus fur luvo tiikon no elfcct.

Tho doctors mo timid about oxprosping n.n opinion. Thoy have decided to tako her back ii tlm hospital. Tho cjro has created eonaidtrablo oxoiteiaont in Iho vicinity whoro Mr* Leo ru^ido-1, and it is expected (hat novoral proininont pliyML^ins will hold a concti'talion and docWo upon somo method by which the tocth cm bo removed from Iho BtiirbrorV stomach.