FREAK OF A GRASS “EAR.”
EMERGED THROUGH CHEST. AFTER BEING SWALLOWED. Nature displayed a strange freak in connection with the recovery of a boy who was incapacitated after swallowing a grass “ear.” How the stray piece of vegetation made its way out of his body is described in the “Lancet” by Dr. Hayling Coleman, of the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton, and Mr Vincent Patrick, of the Staffs General Infirmary. While the boy stood with open mouth his playfellows aimed grass "ears.” one of which passed into the upper aperture of the larynx, and through the larynx trachea, bronchi, lung and chest wall. The boy aged ;H developed a cough, and later a swelling appeared on the chest wall. While dressing this swelling a nurse noticed something projecting from its centre. Seizing the object with forceps she withdrew an ear of grass one and three-quarter inches long. The boy was sent into the Royal Hospital. Wolverhampton, where after an operation, he recovered.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17973, 19 March 1930, Page 11
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160FREAK OF A GRASS “EAR.” Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17973, 19 March 1930, Page 11
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