WHISTLE LOCATED
IN LUNG OF MAN
MONTREAL, Feb. 4
Tho little lead whistle that Philippe Pcttigrew lost more than a half-cen-tury ago has been found. Doctors located it to-day while probing an irritation in the lung of the tavern-keeper, and on Wednesday morning they will attempt to recover it with the aid of a bronchoscope. They said it had been lodged all there years against the bottom of his right lung. Mr. Pettigrew, now 57 years of age, said he remembered swallowing the whistle when he was a child of four.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18960, 10 March 1936, Page 5
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91WHISTLE LOCATED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18960, 10 March 1936, Page 5
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