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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIV
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Six months later she inflicted a wound seven inches in length, in which she inserted 30 pieces of glass, seven long splinters, and five shoe-nails.

In June, 1877, she cut herself for the last time.

The following articles were taken from her arms and preserved: Ninety-four pieces of glass, 34 splinters, two tacks, five shoe-nails, one pin, and one needle, besides other things which were lost,--making altogether about 150 articles.
"Needle-girls," etc .-- A peculiar type of self-mutilation is the habit sometimes seen in hysteric persons of piercing their flesh with numerous needles or pins.

Herbolt of Copenhagen tells of a young Jewess from whose body, in the course of eighteen months, were extracted 217 needles.

Sometime after 100 more came from a tumor on the shoulder.


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