A SWALLOWED BULLET.
COUGHED UP , FROM THE LUNGS. Aboht three months ago Oscar Bruderlin, 15 years of age, of South Singleton (N.S.W.), accidentally swallowed a revolver bullet. Subsequently the youth was taken to the Hangar Cottage Hospital, suffering from pneumonia and pleurisy, and was tin inmate for nine weeks, under the treatment of Drs. Matfey and Bowman. Ho was discharged as cured about a fortnight ago, although he still felt trouble in his lungs, which, after several diagnoses, the medical officers wero unable to trace. Later on, however, the boy was seized with a sudden fit of coughing, anil, much to his delight, up came the bullet which" he three months previously had swallowed. ■ ;-.- : ' • ■■■; '■ ■ '•■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13744, 8 May 1908, Page 6
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114A SWALLOWED BULLET. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13744, 8 May 1908, Page 6
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