PIERCED HEART
SWALLOWED SAFETY PINS LONDON, Dec. 17. How a doctor invented an apparatus to remove a safety-pin embedded near a man's heart, was related at the inquest on William Griffin, a laborer. Griffin had told the doctor that he had 1 eon fooling with safety-pins, and had swallowed some for a lark. Doctors removed two from bis stomach, but a third was found in the windpipe, with its' open point close to the heart.
Dr. NegUS, a surgeon of the King's ('■liege Hospital, bad a special tube made", in which bo hoped to engage the point, of the pin, withdrawing it by special forceps. Four operations were attempted, but the pin was too firmly embedded in the tissue. Griffin recovered from the operations, but died several dayS later, when the pin point pierced his heart.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 11
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