The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-05-15
Queer Things in Peoples Ears.

"You would be astonished," said q
skilled aurist in one of the public eye
and ear inGrmaries," at the large num-
Der 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 q habit they
fell iuto, the same as biting their nails
or scratching their heads. One boy
not twelve years old is almost weekly
visitor here. Well said, as / saw
him come in as usual yesterday after
noon, "what have you got in there this
time? 'Nawthin' but q BEAM he
drawled. o, yes, took it out.
''But / recently met with the most
remarkable case of the kind in twenty
years practice. A young woman Of
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could hardly make her hear by shouting
through a trumpet. After removing a
great quantity of wax from her ears l
found something metallic.
"'What's this I said, have you
been putting something in your carp
80, dear, no. she said, I am not so
foolish as that
Imagine her surprise when / pulled
out smooth, round brass button, with
quite large shank to it This seems
to have been in there great many
years. | said. To my surprise the
young woman crouched in the corner
in undisguised terror.
80, doctor, she said, what is that
awful noise?'
alt was nothing but wagon rumb-
ling by, but 1 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, 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 car
riage, and he said that the clatter in the
streetso distracted her that he was COM
PEELED to hold her in her seat About a
week afterward she came in again -
Sand wanted that button put back,
I suppose" interrupted the reporter.
40, mo, she was brimmingoyer with hap
piness, though for day or two she was
afraid to leave the house. But she told
me about that button. When l was
about eight years old, she said, Il was
sent to village church in New England
with my grandmother. The sermon
was always long and tireSome. aud !
used to amuse myself by pulling the
brass buttons on my cloak. One of them
came off on Sunday, and | occupied
myself for time with putting it in my
ear and shaking it out again. Suddenly
| felt it sink away in there and could
not get it out. was afraid to tell nv
grandmother at the time, and soon
afterward 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 il.
''Do grown people, y asked the re.
porter, lever come to you with things
in their ears?"
"Frequently, but in most cases it is
through no fault of their own. | know
one man, a butcher. who comes here reg
ularly in the summer time to have flies
removed from his ears. have taken out
six at one time for him. How ever 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 ont
night to get Croton bug out of his ear
Now, a water bug will never back. HI
must either turn around or go straigh
ahead. This fellow had erawled int
mans ear, and, not finding room enough
to turn around, went ahead. He wa
paving away with his feelers on tn,
drum, causing the poor man fearful
agony."-M. Y. Times.
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