McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-10
QUEER THINGS IN PEOPLES EAR.
Terrible Sensations Of One Whose Ear
Had Been Long stopped.

Had Been Long stopped.
"You would be astonished," said a
skilled aurist in one of the public eye
and ear infirmaries, cat the large num-
Der of children who are brought to US
in the coarse of 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 bave pulled
almost everything out of the human
ear that it is possible to get in there
shoe buttons, pieces of slate pencil,
candies and wads of paper. Four times
out offive the youngsteris old enough to
know better; but it is a 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. sWell,' said, as 1 saw him come
in as usual yesterday afternoon, what
have you got in there this timeP'
'Nawthin' but beam, he drawled. Oh,
yes, / took it out.
.sBut | recently met with the most
remarkable case of the kind in twenty
years. practice A young woman of
% came in so deaf that L could hardly
make her hear my shouting through
trumpet. After removing great
quantity of wax from her ears | found
something metallic.
"sWhat's thisp' said, shave you
been putting. something in your carp
"sOh, dear, no. she SAID, 'I'm not
so foolish as that
hav xxhn I
out a smooth, round brass button, with
quite large shank to it. This seems
to have been in there a great many
years,'I SAID. To my surprise the
young woman crouched in the corner
in undisguised terror.
"sOh, doctor, she said, what is that
awful noise?'
SIT was nothing but a wagon rum
bling by, but instantly saw what the
trouble was. Her hearing had become
normal when removed that button,
and she was frightened and bewlidered
at the tumble of confusing sounds. The
ticking of the clock, chirping of the
canary, 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
carriage, and he said that the clatter
in the streets so distracted her that he
was compelled to hold her in her seat.
About week afterward she came in
again"
"And wanted that button put back,
l SUPPOSE" interrupted the reporter.
"Oh, no she was Drumming over with
happiness, though for day or two she
was afraid to leave the house. But
she told me about that button. when
1 was about eight years DID, she said,
Il was sent to a village church in New
England with my grandmother. The
sermon was always long and
tiresome, and l used to amuse
myself by pulling at the brass buttons
on my cloak. One of them came off
on Sunday, and L occupied myself for
time with putting it in my ear and then
shaking it out again. Suddenly 1 felt
it sink away in there and could not
get it out. l was afraid to tell my
grandmother at the time, and soon
afterward forgot it. At 10 years of age
l began to grow deaf and have been
getting worse ever since, but L never
thought of that button until you re-
moved it,"
"Do grown up people, asked the re-
porter, "ever come to you with things
| in their ears?"
"Frequently, but in most cases it is
through no fault of their own. know
one man, butcher, who comes here
regularly in the summer to have flies
removed from his ears. l have taken
out six at one time for him. However
they get there don't know. He says
they fly in; but they don't fly out, I'm
sure of that. A man called me out of
bed one night to get a Croton bug out
of his ear. Now, a water bug will
never back. He must either turn around
or 60 straight ahead. This fellow had
crawled into the mans ear, and, not
finding room enough to turn around,
went ahead. He was paving away
with his feelers on the drum, causing
the poor man fearful agony"
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