In 1851
the same journal spoke of an instance in which 30 pins were
removed from the limbs of a servant girl. It was said that while
hanging clothes, with her mouth full of pins, she was slapped on
the shoulder, causing her to start and swallow the pins. There is
another report of a woman who swallowed great numbers of pins. On
her death one pound and nine ounces of pins were found in her
stomach and duodenum. There are individuals known as "human
pin-cushions," who publicly introduce pins and needles into their
bodies for gain's sake.
The wanderings of pins and needles in the body are quite well
known. Schenck records the finding of a swallowed pin in the
liver. Haller mentions one that made its way to the hand. Silvy
speaks of a case in which a quantity of swallowed pins escaped
through the muscles, the bladder, and vagina; there is another
record in which the pins escaped many years afterward from the
thigh. The Philosophical Transactions contain a record of the
escape of a pin from the skin of the arm after it had entered by
the mouth. Gooch, Ruysch, Purmann, and Hoffman speak of
needle-wanderings. Stephenson gives an account of a pin which was
finally voided by the bladder after forty-two years' sojourn in a
lady's body.
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