The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-05-01
Terrible Sensations OF One Whose Ear
Had Been Long Stopped.

"You would be astonished," said a
skilled aurist in one of the public eye
and ear infirmaries, Sat the large num-
ber of children who are brought to us
in the course of a week to have some
thing removed from their ears that they
have foolishly stuck in them and have
been unable to get out again. L have
sometimes disposed of ten such cases
in an afternoon, and have pulled most
everything out of the human ear that
it is possible to getthere-shoe buttons.
pieces of slate pencil, candies and wads
of paper. Four times out OF five the
youngster is old enough to know bet
ter; but it is habit they fall into. the
same as biting their nails or scratching
their heads. One boy not II years old
is almost a weekly visitor here. We'll,
| said, as l saw him come in as usual
Yesterday afternoon, what have you
got in there this timer 'Nawthin' but
bean,' he drawled.
but l recently met with the most
remarkable case of the kind in twenty
years practice. A young woman Of
% came in so deaf that could hardly
make her hear by shouting through a
trumpet. After removing great
quantity of wax from her ears found
something metallic.
What's this 1 said, have you
been putting something in your carp
".Oh, dear, no., she said, Il am not
so foolish as that
Imagine her surprise when pulled
out a smooth, round brass button, with
quite q shank to it. This seems to
have been in there a great many years,
/ said. To my surprise the young wo-
man crouched in the corner in undis-
guised terror.
"'Oh, DOCTOR she said, what is that
awful noise?'
at was nothing but wagon rumb-
ling by, but instantly saw what the
trouble was. Her hearing had become
normal when l removed that button,
and she was frightened and bewildered
at the tumble of confusing sounds. The
| ticking of the clock. chirping of the ca-
nary, or dripping of water distressed
her, and the rustic of her own silk dress
made her start with fear. sent one
of the assistants home with her in a
carriage, and he said that the clatter
in the street so distracted her that he
was compelled to hold her in her seat.
ADOuI Weeh dlIeIWdIu euo CdHo AL
again"
"And wanted the button put back,
suppose" interrupted the reporter.
''Oh, no, she was brimming over
with happiness, though for day OF
two she was afraid to leave the house.
But she told me about that button
When l was about eight years DID, she
said, Il was sent to a village church il
New England with my grandmother
The sermon was always long and tire
some, and l used to amuse myself by
pulling at the brass buttons on my
cloak. One of them came off one Sun
day, and occupied myself for a tim'
with putting it in my ear and shaking
it out again. Suddenly l felt it sinl
away in there and could not get i
out. l was afraid to tell my grand
mother at the time, and soon afterwar'
forgot it. At 10 years of age | begaI
to grow deaf and have, been gettins
worse ever since, but / never ono
thought of that button until you re
moved it. }"
"Do grown people," asked the rcpor
ter, ''ever come to you with things il
their ears?"
Frequently, but in most cases it i
through no fault of their own. l knoN
one man, butcher, who comes her
regularly in the summer time to hav
flies removed from his ears. Ihave ta
ken out six at one time for him. How
ever they get there don't know. il
says they fly in; but they don't fly out
I'm sure of that. A man called III
out of bed one night to get a Croto
huO ont of his ear Now q water bu
will never back. He must either tur
around or go straight ahead. This fel
low had crawled into the mans eal
and, not finding room enough to tur
around, went ahead. He was PAWN
away with his feelers on the drum
causing the poor man fearful agony.