Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-08-21
NO. 81.
tFTom the Chicago TmsAI
A NEST OF WORMS FOUND IN
mAN's EAR--oPINIONs OF mEDI-
CAL MEN.


CAL MEN.
A derman of Chicago, named Stephen
Schwdenger, on Monday entered tho office
oil DR.. p. b. Reynolds, on the corner of
Madison and Dearborn Streets. He looked
lnquiringly around for the Doctor and.
having discovered him, requested his medi.
cal advice. The patient informed the Doctor
that he had an unpleasant sensation in his
leit ear; that, moreover, from it flowed blood
without any accountable reason, and that i'm
the morning, when he rises from the bed. he
hnds his pillow covered with blood. A
highly interesting case, thinks the Doctor.
An unpleasant one, thinks the man. The
doctor tells his patient to be seated. The
latter does so; upon which the Doctor. with
instrument in hand, explores the contents of
the LETT ear, wherefrom the blood flows that
covers the patients pillow of night. Feel.
ing an open space greater than there should
pe, the doctor lays down his instrument and
trusts to his finger. He inserts 1t and feels
something moving-many things moving
lie catches hold of them and draws the
moving things out, when. to his utter amaze.
ment and alarm, he discovers them to be a
io' oi worms, mammoth maggots, fully an
inch in length, lively as cock-roaches, more
hVeiY than maggots-fat, corpulent, alder
manic looking maggots. They had had good
hYingi had lived and had flourished ON hu.
man blood and human flesh. Why. then.
should they not be fat, corpulent, alderman.
ic, and as lively as young colts, with nothing
TO do and plenty to eat9 And how many of
these inch long maggots were there In the
lett ear OF this Germanf Nineteenl Nine.
Teen as good maggots, as real maggots, az
ever lived in the depths of rich, Juicy
cheese. Giants of maggots, so much larger
than common maggots that Colonel Wood.
II ne mad men and women so much larger
than their brotherhood and sisterhood az
they OF their brotherhood and sisterhood.
would quickly eclipse Barnum and wish for
nothing more.
The colony of worms had erected them.
selves quarters, or, rather, excavated a resi-
dence. They had enlarged the middle cham
Der oil the ear to accommodate their corpu.
lence and their numbers, present and pros.
pective. How much longer they would have
made their habitation, if they had been al.
lowed TO remain in it, no one can saw. but
all can imagine. AS II is, the tympanum of
the ear is completely eaten out, and the man
cannot hope that this ear will ever be of any
use to him. Notwithstanding his trouble.
some passengers, the man has gone about
MS usual business, and paid but little atten-
ton to the "curious feeling" in his ear.
How did this colony of maggots settle
when it did, is question that suggests itself
to the reader. The manner is only conjecs
turable' They were born in the ear. Sew
eral OF our most learned doctors have looked
at the worms and tried to form conclusion
upon the subject, and while they can come
to no certain conclusion, the general opin
ion at which they have arrived is that a fly
in some manner forced an entrance into the
ear OF the man, and there bred the maRgots
Dr. reynolds has examined numerous medi-
cal works upon the subject, but has not been
able to find mention in them of q similar
discovery of worms in the ear of a human
being. Six of these maggots are still alive
and on exhibition, confined in bottle in the
DOCTORS office. They are fully an inch long,
thick and perfectly transparent He feeds
them on blood, (not human blood it is to be
hoped,) and they promise to continue living