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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Wilson Man Mistakenly Swallows Buttons Instead of Aspirin; Says He Feels Fine, Dec. 1919

From the Mount Airy News, January 8, 1920

Cashier Takes Buttons Instead of Medicine

Wilson, Dec. 27—A bank cashier of this city a few days ago came to the conclusion that he had a sever attack of asthma and stopping at a drug store purchased one dozen aspirin tablets.

The box that contained the medicine struck the fancy of one of his daughters as being the very thing to pack a Christmas present in and the cashier’s wife took the tablets from the box and placed them in a pin tray and placed the tray in a bureau drawer, and warned him not to forget to take them just before retiring each night until they were all taken.

For several nights in succession the asthmatic forgot his dope until getting between the sheets and knowing about where his wife placed them, got up in the dark and gulped them down. The fourth morning his wife in plundering in the bureau drawer found that not a single table had been taken, and asked: “Why dear?”

He replied: “I have taken the last one and never felt finer in my life.”

Instead of the tray with tablets he had been swallowing white pearl shirt buttons from another pin tray, and says he feels “all buttoned up.”


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