Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25
A TALK WITH AN AURIST.
THE QUEER THINGS THAT OFTEN
GET INTO PEOPLES EARS.
Children the Principal Sufferers TER
rible Sc nSatiOns of One Whose Ear
EEn Heen Long stopped.

Children tn Pr ncipai Sufferers TER
ribIe Sc lSatlOns of One Whose Ear
TIA Heen Long stopped.
You would be astonished," said
skilled aurist in one of the public eye and
ear infrmaries, ''at the large number of
children who are brought to us in the
course of week to have something re-
moved from theirears that they have fool.
ishly stuck in them and have b-en un lble
to get out again. l have sometimes dis
posed of ten such cases in an afternoon.
and have pulled almost everything olt of
the human ear that it is possible to get in
there-shoe buttons, pieces of slate pen
Gil, candies and wads of paper. -Four
times out of five the youngest is old
enough to know better; but it is habit
they fall into, the same as biting their
nails or scratching their heads. One boy
not twelve years o.d is almost a weekly
visitor here. well, | said as l saw him
come in as usual yesterday afternoon,
what have YOU got in there this timcH
'Nawthin' but bean. he drawled. Oh
yes, / took it out.
'But recently met with the most re-
markablc case of the kind in twenty
years practice. Ayoung woman oftwenty-
three came in so deaf that | could hardly
make her hear by shouting through a
trumpet. After removing a great guam
tity of wax from her ears | found some
thing metallic.
"What's this, l said, have you been
putting something in your ear p
ooh, dear, no, she said, Il am not Sc
foolish as that
'Imagine her surprise when I pulled
out smooth, round brass button, with
quite large shank to it. This seems
to have been in there great many years,
l said. To my surprise the young woman
crouched in the corner in undisguised
terror.
"Oh, doctor, she said, what is that
awful noise 2
&" 1t was nothing but a wagon rumbling
by, but instantly saw what the trouble
was. Her hearing had become normal
when | removed that button, and she was
frightened and bewildered at the tumble
of confusing sounds. The ticking OF
the clock, chirping of the canary OF
dripping of water distressed her, and
the rustic of her own silk dress made heI
start with fear l sent one of the assis-
tants home with her in a carriage, and
he said that the clatter in the street SC
distracted her that he was compelled to
hold her in her seat. About week af
terward she came in again"
"And wanted that button put back, ]
suppose" interrupted the reporter.
"Oh, no she was brimming over with
happiness, though for a 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, q
was sent to village church in New Eng
land with my grandmother. The sermon
was always long and tiresome, and fused tc
amuse myself by pulling at the brass but
ton on my cloak. One of them came off one
Sunday, and occupied myself for time
with putting it in my ear and shaking il
out again. Suddenly l felt it sink away
in there and could not get it out.
was afraid to tell my grandmother at the
time, and soon afterward forgot it. Al
ten years of age began to grow deaf
and have been getting worse ever since
but never once thought of that buttor
until YOU removed it."
"Do grown people," asked the repor
ter, "ever come to you with things il
their ears?"
Frequently but in most cases it i
through no fault of their own. I know
one man, butcher, who comes herr
regularly in the summer time to hav,
flies removed from his cars. l have takel
out six at one time for him. How eve
they get there don't know. He say
they fly in; but they don't fly out, I'm
sure of that. A man called me out o
bed one night to get Croton bug out o
his ear. Now, water bug will neve
back. He must either turn around or g
straight ahead. This fellow had crawle
into the mans ear, and, not finding room
enough to turn around, went ahead. II
was paving away with his feelers on tn
drum, causing the poor man fearfu
agony"