SWALLOWED HIS TEETH.
P ATIENT HAPPY IN HOSPITAL. HOPES TO HAVE A MEAL. Lying in Sydney Hospital is Herbert Lawrence Brien, a young Fairfield man, who has swallowed his false teeth. Brien, who is employed as a ba.-kor, .and lives with his aunt in Crescent Street, Fairfield, was “sleeping in” on the bakers’ holiday. Just as he was about to get up he coughed, and the next instant the plate on his upper jaw, containing two teeth, slipped down his throat.
A few h.ours later an X-ray photograph, taken at Sydney Hospital, showed that the plate was stuck in the gullet about the middle of the chest. Two operations have been carried out so far, during which the doctors tried to recover the foreign body with instruments, but without success.
. A third attempt is to be -made, and it is hoped that by cutting the plate in pieces it will bei be possible to extract it.
Brien, although, suffering pain occasionally, was quite cheerful about his unpleasant experience. “I don’t care .wha t they do with the plate,” he said, “as long as they get it out. I never want to sec it again.” He has had very little food since the accident, and :1s looking forward to having a good meal as soon as possible.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5147, 4 July 1927, Page 3
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