To the Editor:
—Dr. Kime, in the issue of January 19, reports a case of the "Migration of a Needle." I offer a companion case.Some time during the winter of 1885-6 I was called to see the 3-year old son of Mr. Henry Cook, of this place. I found the child busy with his toys and not complaining of anything. His mother informed me that, while creeping over the floor, he had suddenly cried out, and going to him she found a needle protruding, point out, from the inner aspect of the knee. I made a careful examination and, aside from a small prick-point of the skin, I found nothing to indicate any foreign body being imbedded, and so informed Mrs. C. She said she knew it was there, for she had, in her effort to remove it, broken off the point. As the child suffered no more, I