PINS IN THE MOUTH.
Putting pins in the mouth is a rash practice which cannot be too strongly condcmmed, to say nothing of carrying them there. An instance illustrating the risk of it is thus stated in the (Ithaco N.Y.) Journal: Miss Harvey, of Candor, when eleven or twelve years of age, was one day making hurried preparations to attend a party. She had a pin between her lips, which passed into her mouth, and was supposed to be swallowed. Dr. Nliller assumed such to be the fact, but the girl insisted that it was under her tongue. The physician made search for it there but failed to discover it, and treated her protestations as the work of imagination. Recently Miss Harvey had a large lump come upon her tongue, increasing in painfulness. Mr L. Farnham opened the swelling. The next day, after 11 years of hiding, the pin came out of the opening. It was two-thirds covered with a lime formation and was much corroded. Cases have been known when pins placed in the mouth were swallow'ed —with fatal result.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1086, 13 June 1882, Page 4
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181PINS IN THE MOUTH. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1086, 13 June 1882, Page 4
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