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YOUTH’B BTRANQE MENU NAILS, WIRE, LEAD, GLASS (Times Air Mail Service) LGNDON, Dec. 10 From the stomach of one of their patients, doctors of the Perth Hospital in Australia are pulling almost enough bric-a-brac to start an ironmonger’s shop, reports Cavalcade. Out of the seventeen-year-old abdomen have come long rusty nails, tacks, hairpins, hairclips, small rolls of wire. the key of an alarm clock, clock springs, pins, needles, broken beer and lemonade bottles, dirty slugs of lead.
When the boy entered the hospital several weeks ago doctors found he had a great deal in him, removed it. A fortnight after his dismissal he was re-admitted with a new attack of indigestion. In the interval he had stored up such a formidable supply of more ironmongery that the attendants had to make it up into several parcels before sending it to the Child Welfare Department. Under the astonished eyes of his doctors the boy thrives happily, but is kept out of reach of medicine bottles, drinking glasses, and medical paraphernalia.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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171METAL MEALS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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