The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-10

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You would be astonished, p" said a
skilled aurist in one of the public eye
and ear infrmaries in New York, sat
the large number of children who are
brought to us in the course of a week to
have something 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 almost everything out of the hui
man ear that is possible to get in theIe-
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 a habit
they fall into, the same as biting their
nails or scratching their heads. One
boy not yet twelve years old is almost a
weekly visitor here. Well L said, as
| saw him come in As usual, what have
you got in there this timer 'Nawthin'
but a BEAM he drawled. Oh, yes, l
took it out.
"But l recently met with the most
remarkable case of that kind in twenty
years. practice. A young woman of %
came in so deaf that l 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.
WHATS this l said, have you
been putting something in your carp
ooh, dear. no. she said, Il am not
80 foolish as that
Imagine her surprise when 1 pulled
out a smooth, round brass button, with
quite a large shank to it. This seems
to have been in there a 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 noisep'
ut was nothing but a wagon rumbling
by, but 1 instantly saw what the trouble
was. Her hearing had become normal
when l had removed the button, and
she was frightened and bewildered at
the tumble OF the confusing sounds.
The ticking Of the clock, chirplng of
the canary, or dripping of the 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 clat-
ter in the street so distracted her that
he was compelled to hold her in her seat.
About a week afterward she came in
again"
"And wanted the button put back, l
suppose" interrupted the reporter.
ooh, no, she was trimming over with
happiness, though for a day or two she
was afraid to leave the house. But she
| told me all about that button. when
| was about eight years DID, she said
i was sent to a village church in New
England with my grandmother. The
sermon was always long and tiresome,
and | used to amuse myself by pulling
at the brass buttons on my cloak. One
of them came off one Sunday, and l &C.
cupied myself for a 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. l was afraid
to tell my grandmother at the time, aid
soon afterward forgot it.. AT 10 years
Of age l began to grow deaf and have
been getting worse ever since, but
never nee thought of that button until
you removed it,"
do grown people," asked the re-
porter, ''ever come to you with things
in their ears2"
"Frequently, but in most cases it is
through no fault of their own. know
one man, a butcher, who here
rtgular'y 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 l don't know. He
says they fly in: but they don't fly out,
I'm sure of that. A mar 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 round
or go 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. Men employed
in tannelies often get a peculiar looking
worm in their ears, which is no small
trouble to remove"
Dead Cinnamon.