AMAZING SWALLOWS.
6jin Nails to Half a Table Knife. PUBLICHOUSE BETS. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 20. The amazing history of a man swallowing screws, nails, knives and bits of tin for pubiichotisc bets, is told in the "Medical Journal'' by a surgical dresser in the Middlesex Hospital, who gives a diary of operations. In 1900 there was the removal of three bits of tin. three large screws and three 4Mn nails; in 190G, four large screws, four nails, four stones; in 1908. half a table knife; in 1010, a tin whistle and a peashooter; in 1912, five large screws, six 2sin nails, one OA in nail. Oil unspecified dates there were extracted a spoon handle, a button, a fountain pen, a fork handle, six large safety pins, five hair pins, and then in 191G a pencil case and a nail, in 192U three 3in nails. The recovery time varied from two to eight weeks.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 224, 21 September 1935, Page 9
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