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Specimen Found In Child Stomach After Death
Descriptions detail a two pound two ounce foreign body with a twelve and one half inch shell like form and coarse hair embedded inside the stomach and abdomen. The child died thirty four hours after surgery from stomach overdistension while the body was described as alive for about thirty hours. The account notes hair growth inside the body and mentions the girl’s habit of eating raw oysters and a belief in a sea monster germ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Weston
Joseph TH
Drake
M. D
Des Moines
Joseph II. Drake
Ua. M. Linn
C. 8
W. G. Condit
Joseph H. Drake
Cottage Grove Avenue