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U P O M my mentioning the cafe of a girl who- 
fvvallowed three pins, which were afterwards 
difcharged at her dioLilder, you thought it might be 
proper for the Philofophical Tranfadions, and delired 
me to fend it you. I have drawn it from notes taken 
during my attendance upon her, with as much accu- 
racy as polTible, and it is as follows, 
Eleanor Kaylock, a robuft, ftrong girl, aged twenty- 
two, was admitted a patient in the Gloucefter 
infirmary. May 29, 1766, for a pain in her fide pro- 
ceeding from pins fvvallowed three quarters of a year 
before. The occafion of the accident was thus. 
Being employed in the bufinefs of a kitchen, as fhe 
was fcumming the pot (her mouth being open, and 
three pins in it), fhe received a quantity of the vapour, 
which obliged her to fwallow, and the pins at the 
fame time paffed into the cej'ophagns^ where they re- 
mained for eight weeks, notwithlbanding various me- 
thods were ufed for their removal; but they were at 
laft forced down by the whalebone inflrument ufed 
by furgeons for that purpofe. 
Whilft the pins were in her throat, the parts be- 
came inflamed, and fwoln, which occafioned an 
hoarfenefs, attended with great pain, and difhculty 
of breathing : being alfo capable of receiving but very 
little nourifhment, and that liquids, fhe was reduced 
to lb weak a date as not to be able to get out of her 
bed. After the pins were removed flie could fwallow 
Iblids, and recovered flrength fufficient to go out 
again to fervice in her former employment. She 
was hired as an under-fervant in a gentleman’s kit- 
chen, 
