Jeffersonian Republican

Needle Taken from the Body of a Lady.

A Boston physician extracted a 'button needle' from the abdomen of a young lady in Charlestown, Massachusetts, last week. For several months the lady had been afflicted with poor health, interspersed with alarming spasmodic turns. The cause of her sickness baffled the searchings of her physician, until yesterday when he made an elaborate examination, the needle aforementioned was perceptible a short distance beneath the skin, upon the left side of the abdomen. It was shortly extracted, with dexterity. Its color was black, while its original surface was more or less dissolved, evidently by the action of gastric juice. The presumption is that the patient swallowed the needle many months ago, and that it had thus worked its way through her system, fortunately performing its journey before it had sent its victim to the grave. The case is a remarkable one.