Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1912 — BABY IS LIKE AN OSTRICH [ARTICLE]

BABY IS LIKE AN OSTRICH

Ten-Montha-Old Infant Safely Swallows Bell *Clapper and Wire Hook. Chico, Cal. —The ten-months-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. A W.tDouglas, living at the southeast corner of Fifth and Walnut streets, swallowed the clapper of a table bell and an attached open wire hook. After retaining it in the delicate stomach, used to milk only, for 93 hours, the child was relieved of It this morning, making one of the mffst Interesting and novel cases In the history of the city. —While the child was playing with a bell the clapper separated and fell in its lap. The babe swallowed the clapper, which was as large as the tip of the little finger. The wire was opened much like a safety -pta, differentln the that there was not a very sharp point. The babe suffered no apparent discomfort, and played and prattled as If the bell clapper was .where it belonged. The baby was placed on a light diet of bread and potatoes and given as medicine a small quantity of opinm, calculated to lessen the action of the bowels, so that the metal ball would pass from the stomach and .intestines by slow process, preventing the lacerations that would follow quick removal. r The casd Is considered particularly Interesting because - of the age of the

babe and the size of the clapper and the possibilities for injury from the Inch-long wire hook attached. -