Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1912 — FIND HAIR IN GIRL'S STOMACH [ARTICLE]

FIND HAIR IN GIRL'S STOMACH

Fourteen Ounces Is Removed From Organ of Child In Los An- . geles, Cal. Los Angeles.—Relieved of fourteen ounces of hair, which she had swallowed a little at a time since last November, Virginia Field, an eleven-year-old girl, is resting easily at a hospital and is practically sure to recover. The girl was Injured by a fall last November. Thereafter she suffered from a nervous affection that caused her continually to bite her hair. In this way her stomach was gradually filled with broken strands of hair, and several days ago she was taken violently" ill. . The surgeons found the hair balled up in the child’s stomach.