Ari absent-minded woman had insisted upon being operate don for appendicitis. Some time after her recovery she turned up at the consulting-room and asked the doctor if he would mind telling her what he had found in her appendix. “Well,” said the doctor, ” may as well admit to you that yours was the most extraordinary case I have ever handled. I never found anything like it in an appendix bfeore. You will hardly believe it, buta found several small, hard seeds.” “Oh!” said the woman. “That accounts for our having n) sweet peas this year, must have sown the pills.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 8
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