One Way of Doing it.
A doctor describes in a medioal paper a novel method of removing a fish bone crosswise from the throat. The bone was too low to be reached by any forceps at hand, and the author recalled a method of proSure torn him by an old doctor who had been taught by a boy, namely, to tie a string in the eye of a smooth button and have the Stient swallow the button, edgewise of .omse and draw the button back by the sSg This was done, and the bone was promptly dislodged.
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Southland Times, Issue 19264, 30 January 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)
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