6 JUNE 1931, Page 18

A Hundred Years Ago THE " SPECTATOR," JUNE 4TH, 1831.

SING ULAR OPERATION.

The astonishing number of 450 plum-stones were last week extracted from the body of a women, in Wilmslow, named Ann Pearson, by Mr. Moore, the surgeon of that place ; having, it is supposed, lain in the alimentary canal from the time of her first pregnancy, ten years ago. She had laboured under great bodily affliction during the whole of that period ; and her complaint had, up to the time of this occurrence, baffled the skill and penetration of all the medical and surgical gentlemen who had been ie attendance upon her.