The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-06-25
Ouaer Things in Peoples Ears.


"You would be astonished," said
skilled aurist in one of the public oye
and ear intirmaries," at the large num-
ber of children who are brought to us
in the course 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.
have sometimes disposed of ten such
cases in an afternoon, and have 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 of five the youngster is old enough
TO know better; but it is habit they
fall into, the same rs biting their nails
or scratching their heads. One boy
not twelve years old is almost weekly
visitor here Well said. rs | saw
him come in as usual yesterday after
noon what have YOU got in there this
tme?' 'Nawthin' but bean, he
drawlcd. O, YES. took i: out
"But / recently met with the most
remarkable case of the kind in twenty
years practice. Il young woman Of
twentv-threc came in so deaf that
could hardly make her hear by shouting
through Il trumpet. After removing y
great quantity OF waN from her ears l
found something metallic.
"'What's this said, have you
been putting something in your ear?
go. dear, no, she said, L am not sc
foolish ~ that.
"Imagine her surprise when | pulled
,..,, =, wound hr.s- Ipttnp yrifb
quite LARGE shank TO it 'Ihis seems
to have been in there p great many
wears, said. TO my surprise tht
Young woman crouchcd in the corner
in undisguiSed terror
80. doctor. she said, what is that
awful noise?
at was nothing but wagon rumb
ling by, but | instantly saw what the
trouble was Hc,' hearing had become
normal when removed that button,
and she was frightened and bewadered
at the jumbo OF confusing sounds. The
ticking of the clock, ch;rping OF the
canary, or dripping OF water distressed
her, and the rustic OF her own silk dress
made lrcr start with fear. hscnt one of
the assistants home with her in IL car
riaSe. and no said that the clatter in the
street so distracted her that he was com
PEELED to hold her in her seat. About q
week afterward she came inagaiu-"
and wanted that button put back.
suppose interrupted the reporter
-. no, she was brimmingovcr with hap
piness, though for q day or two she was
afraid to leave the house. But she told
me about that button When | was
about eight Years old, she said, 4 was
sent to village church in New England
with my grandmother The sermon
WAS always long and tircsome, and !
used to amuSe myself by pulling the
brass buttons on my cloak. One of them
came Off on sunday, and occupied
ear and shaking it out again Suddenly
1 felt il sink away in there and could
not get it out. was afraid to tell my
grandmother at the time and soon
aftcrward forgot it. AT ten years of
age began to grow deaf and have been
getting worse ever since, but never
once thought of that button until you
removed H."
''Do grown people," d" asked the re.
porter, lever come TO you with things
in their ears?'
Frequently but in most cases ii rs
through no fault of their own. know
one man. butcher, who comes here reg
ularlv in the summer time to have flies
removed from his ears. have taken out
.iX ut one time for him. How ever They
get there don't know. He says they
ilv in; but they don't ilv out. l'm sure
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