A STRANGE ACCIDENT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1020, 13 August 1883, Page 4

A STRANGE ACCIDENT.

the particulars of a remark*~«bleaceident came to our knowledge. The subject of the accident was Mr G«)rge Stillie, traveller for Messrs Blackie and Sot), publishers, London, Glasgow, and’Edinburgh. ’ About sixteen or seventeen months ago Mr Stillie. WUl'in’Australia. The weather was very hot, and he took a hammock andsuspiended it under the verandah w the house he was staying in as a bed at night The mosquitos were trouble* some, and, as t he had often done previously, he lighted his pipe after getting Into hammock to. keep his tormen«ntili he should ‘ fall asleep. The pipe he used a meerschaum stalk which ; screwed on. The full length of this part of the stalk was The bowl of the pipe had been loose, though unknown to Mr Stillie at the time.' During sleep the bowl of the pipe became detached from the stalk, and he had unconsciously sucked; the stalk down the windpipe!; ' and it found a lodgementon the Jjpfk $ -tjie right, lung. ;v Of this he was quite unconscious at the time, and ,tjieipb?/?Uge of the.stem pn the ,fbl«idwjpg day,excited ,no ; suspicion in his mind. He began to suffer from an irritating cough, and on a doctor being consulted he stated that he was suffering from chrodic bronchitis. In Melbourne subsequently he consulted other nil told him the same bronchitis! On his afrivalm&Nfiw Zeajandj hwiatharntwelvemonths agdTTie'suffered a good deal when in Dunedin, and was informed by the doctor he consulted there the ; but he .premised to cure bitti-of chronic bronchitis if he would Six weeks. Mr Stillie did not mm^bdm'six' weeks agq, ; to suffer from his chronic complaint. All whom agreed u P on the ailment fpm he suffered save one chemisfiiftiMelbourhe, who asserted that his Ifoublowas not bronchitis,' whatever it <wbs. f bout six weeks ago Mr Stillie was in and was seized with iMnfi^’-^’ ! and’ keeping tq;a> stooping position while iqrppughipg, he ultimately coughed up ihouloag.f concealed pipe stalk. An abscess formed where the stalk had so k)bg> tested/ and he was attended to at the ’itoSjpifal here soon after his arrival fli AlffilhaWd. v He is now staying at the A|b§it Kptel, and,will be glad to show .so much suffering to any dtedicat man who may feel interest in the recital -of - particulars of his fferitld / 153 IiCA ■