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Friday, February 11, 2022

4-Year-Old Swallows Open Safety Pin, Feb. 11, 1922

Safety Pin in Child’s Throat. . . Doctors’ Probe May Be Followed by Surgical Operation to Relieve it

An open safety-pin, in the stomach of the 4-year-old son of Patrolman E.O. Ervin of Belmont, is the object of probing on the part of surgeons at the Charlotte Sanitorium, who Saturday morning had not been able to extricate it.

The child, playing around the house Friday afternoon, picked up a safety pin, which was open, and put it into his mouth. Ere long the pin had started down his throat. At his first cry the pin was lodged in the throat but efforts to loosen it failed, and it continued its downward course.

Removal to the hospital followed and surgeons bent their energies toward getting the pin out. It was located in the stomach by X-ray pictures and instruments were thrust down the child’s throat but the pin refused to come out. It was thought that the child might have to be operated upon before the pin could be removed.

The point of the pin was said to be bent back, thus rendering the object more difficult for the surgeons to handle. At times the child suffers great pain when the pin sticks.

From The Charlotte News, Saturday evening, February 11, 1922

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