SWALLOWED BY MAN.

Western Star, 10 April 1934, Page 3

SWALLOWED BY MAN.

A PEPPER-BOX LID. A man was sprinkling pepper on the boiled egg he was eating for breakfast when the lid of the pepper-box came' off. He scraped the surplus pepper from the egg and finished his breakfast. That happened four monthe. ago in a country town in England. Later the man had difficulty in swallowing. He went to the Central London Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. There an X-ray examination revealed the white vulcanite top of the pepperbox lodged in hie throat. It was as large as a florin. After a number of operations the obstruction was removed, and the man was soon recovering.

The hospital secretary says he thinks this tho most unusual case they have had. The swallowing of dental plates, coins, and beads, he said, is comparatively common.

A woman of Burgos, Spain, has tasted neither food nor drink for the last fifteen years. Doctors declare that her abnormal body organs extract nutrition from the air.

Mr William Goodwin, a cutter for •n English firm of tailors in Bombay, travelled 2000 miles to alter the position of a row of buttons on the Maharajah of Altar’s tills breeche?.