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A SINGULAR INSTANCE, &C. 1 1$
December 20, 1779, Mrs. Smithers of Bed Lion Street,
was delivered of two boys and a girl; and what is very
remarkable, that she was fifty years of age, and never had
a child before.
Singular Instance of a Womans Recovering after having
Swallowed about Righty Pins.
T.N the month of November, 1779, as a, young woman
named Mary Spelmore (who lived in St. Peter's parish,
Derby) was hanging out some linen to dry, she had the
shocking misfortune to swallow a great number of pins,
which she had put in her mouth, by a sudden emotion
of the line on which the cloaths were hung. A surgeon
being immediately sent for, and proper means used, she
voided several that day, and continued to throw up more
or less for many days after the accident happened; but
what is very extraordinary, notwithstanding the violent
retching fits with which she was attacked with, she never
voided more than one at a time, though the number
amounted in four days to 76, all of which came upwards,
excepting three only. Some of the pins were remarkably
Ione ones; and at first her convulsions were so strong,
that it was with difficulty several persons could hold her.
But she being continually troubled with a pain in her
side, arms, and other parts of her body, shortly after en-
tered the hospital at Nottingham (part of which hospital
is for the use of the poor of Derby,) there gathered a
tumor in her left side and near her left shoulder. These
were suppurated and opened, and several pins came out
by these wounds. She was after this discharged from the
hospital perfectly cured. It was about five months from
her first swallowing the pins to her being pronounced
eured.
A REMAK
December 20, 1779, Mrs. Smithers of Bed Lion Street,
was delivered of two boys and a girl; and what is very
remarkable, that she was fifty years of age, and never had
a child before.
Singular Instance of a Womans Recovering after having
Swallowed about Righty Pins.
T.N the month of November, 1779, as a, young woman
named Mary Spelmore (who lived in St. Peter's parish,
Derby) was hanging out some linen to dry, she had the
shocking misfortune to swallow a great number of pins,
which she had put in her mouth, by a sudden emotion
of the line on which the cloaths were hung. A surgeon
being immediately sent for, and proper means used, she
voided several that day, and continued to throw up more
or less for many days after the accident happened; but
what is very extraordinary, notwithstanding the violent
retching fits with which she was attacked with, she never
voided more than one at a time, though the number
amounted in four days to 76, all of which came upwards,
excepting three only. Some of the pins were remarkably
Ione ones; and at first her convulsions were so strong,
that it was with difficulty several persons could hold her.
But she being continually troubled with a pain in her
side, arms, and other parts of her body, shortly after en-
tered the hospital at Nottingham (part of which hospital
is for the use of the poor of Derby,) there gathered a
tumor in her left side and near her left shoulder. These
were suppurated and opened, and several pins came out
by these wounds. She was after this discharged from the
hospital perfectly cured. It was about five months from
her first swallowing the pins to her being pronounced
eured.
A REMAK