Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — A Human Needle Cushion. [ARTICLE]

A Human Needle Cushion.

Mrs. Seeley, residing on the ereek road, in the town of Sardinia, about three-fourths of a mile west of the Forks, has had no less than fifty-two needles, pins, and bits of wire removed from her flesh within the past few months. Dr. Pitcher, of Sardinia, has removed ten of these foreign substances, and Dr. Kingman, of the same place, has taken out forty-two more. They were nearly all removed from her arms and back. Despite the presence of so much metallic matter circulating within her body, she has been quite well, and able most of the time to do her house work. She cannot account for the presence of thii foreign matter, and the doctors are mystified. The woman is 36 years of age and apparently sane. We have seen the articles removed from her, body—the bits of wire appear to be parts of broken hair pins, and the needles and pins are corroded as though they had been in her flesh for a long time.— Local Neves, SpringviUe t N. Y.