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Paper-Clip Swallowed Three Years Ago REMARKABLE OPERATION By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. * (Received July 20, 9.50 p.m.) Sydney, July 20. A well-known doctor performed a remarkable operation to-day when he removed a paper-clip from a child’s lung, where it had been embedded for three years. The child, a girl aged 10, had suffered from a chronic cough, and questions by the doctor led to a recollection that the girl thought she bad swallowed a clip. This was confirmed by X-ray and the doctor removed the obstruction without a surgical operation. Placing a gag in the girl’s mouth, he inserted a bronchoscope down her throat and, with its aid. located the two pieces of brass, then extracted both pieces with an ordinary pair of surgical forceps.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 252, 21 July 1934, Page 7
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