Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-09
WORMS IN HIS NOSE Prominent Contractor at Mesa Recovering From Frightful Experience. Victim Was For One Whole
 Week Unable to Get
 . Any Rest.

MESA, Ariz., May s.--With the enA tire cavity back of the nose and un- der the ewes filled with living, working mass of screw worms grad ually eating their way through the delicate membranes in the vicinity of the brain with the fatality of the absolute garrotte,. Alec Moffett, living in temporary home on East Main street has for the past week suffered agony undescribable. During the time that the first excruciating pains began shooting through the entire left side of his face and head and up until the time he has received tempo rary relief, he has rolled from one side of his cot to the other without hardly as much as closing his eyes in sleep.
 Moffet was visited yesterday at his home, and while his nervous con dition is in a pitiful condition on ac- count of the strain placed upon it during the past few days, yet he was in manner able to recount a few of the details relative to the case.
 Mir. Moffett states that Wednesday of last week he came home from his work at the Mesa Dairy and Ice com pany, where he has had a contract 70 put in some cement work, and that he was of the opinion that he had an attack of grip. He is of the opin-
 ion that while lying out under the trees in his yard when he was first taken with the grip, that fly deposit ed the egg which has caused the condition enumerated above. Accord ing to physicians an egg deposited by 8 fly will hatch in an hour and the worm will immediately become ac- tive. MT. Moffett states that he first noticed severe pains commencing in his lower jaw, and then extending around to the rear of his head and neck. These pains continued to in crease until Friday when he consult ed physician who removed eighteen small worms by means of the orii- nary chloroform method. MT. Moffet states that he was temporarily reliev- ed after this, and had begun to be- lieve himself on the road to recovery when the pains returned and in Q short time they were even greater than at first. Added to the sharp pains extending around the side of the head were the grinding and grat- ing of the worms that nearly proved the undoing of the man. The doche was freely used, but not until Sunday morning did the first real life sized worm begin to make their appear ance. At this time, over seven, some of them over an inch long were ex- pelled from the mans nose and were yet alive when placed in a small vial Monday. MT Moffet called at the office of Dr. Palmer and eighteen more of the life sized worms were removed. Mir. Moffet was crazed with pain and knew not what he was doing. and even yet is subject to nervous chills at short intervals Messrs. Drane and Palmer have the case in hand and are giving it their close attention. They are of the opin- ion that the worms are nearly extern mated, if not entirely SC, and the patient Is of the same opinion.
 Mir. Moffett and family came here last November with several parties from Jerusalem, Ohio. He has work ed as cement contractor while in the city and is at the present engaGef at the Mesa Dairy and Ice company's plant. He worked at the Union nigh school building until it was comPiet- ed. The physicians state that it is not an uncommon occurrence for screw worms to get in the nasal cav ities. but the case of Moffett has of- fered complications out of :he ordi- nary.