Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-03-29
,:czER THINGS IN PEOPLES EARS.
A Young " oman - l,O " az Surprised at
sl.e Removal of n Button.
From The New York Sun

From The New York Sun
You would be astonishcd.' said skilled
aurist in one Of the public eye and ear infirmar-
les. lat 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 I'M
able to get out again. have sometimes dis
posed of ten such cases in an afternoon and
have pulled almost everything out OF the human
ear that is possible to get in there-shoe-but
tons, pieces of slate pencil. candies and wads Of
paper. -Four times out of five the yOungstcr 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 yet twelve
years old is almost weekly visitor here Well
l sad. as saw him come in as usual yesterday
afternoon. what have you got in there this
time! 'Nawthin but bean, he drawed. Oh
yes took it out
But l recently met with the most remark
able case of that kind in 90 years practise A
Young woman of 23 came in so deaf that could
hardly make her hear by shouting through a
trumpet After removing q great quantity of
wax from her ears found something metallic
What 5 this. said have you been putting
something in your carr
'''Oh, dear, no. she said, 4 am not so foolish
as that
Imagine her surprise when I pulled out a
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 undis-
guised terror.
'''Oh. DOCTOR she said, what is that awful
noSci'
1T was nothing but wagon rumbng by but
instantly saw what the trouble was. Her hear
ing lau become normal when removed that
button. and she was frightened and bewldcred
at the tumble of confusing sounds. The ticking
of the clock. chirpng of the canary or dripping
OF water distressed her, and the rustic of her own
sin dress made her start with fear. / sent one
of the assistants hCme with her in a carriage
and he said that tine CHATTER in the street so dis
tracted her that he was compelled to hold her
in the seat About week afterward she came
in again"
And wanted that button put back, l sup
pose. interrupted the reporter
oh no, she was trimming over with harpi-
ness. though for day or two she was afraid to
leave the house But she told me about that
button. When / was about years old she
sad. Il was sent to a village church in New En-
land 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 CT them came oil one Sunday, and
occupied myself for Il time with putting it i'm my
ear and shaking it out again. Suddenly 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. At 10 Years of age
began to grow deaf and have been getting
worse ever since but never once thought of
that button until you removed it,
do grown people," asked the reporter "ever
come TO you with things in their ears"
Frequently. but in most cases it is through
no fault of their own. i know one man,
butcher, who comes here regularly i'm the sum
lner 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 saws thew
fly in; but they don't fly out, I'm sure of that A
man called me out Of bed one night to get
Croton bur out of his ear Now. a water bug
will never back. He must either turn around or
20 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 tanneries
often get n peculiar looking worm in their ears,
which it is no small trouble to remove