Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-05-12
AWFUL SUFfER|NGS . DRIVE MESA MAN
 DESPERATE MORE THAN SIXTY OF DEADLY SCREW WORMS TAKEN FROM
 g NASAL CAVITY @ WITHOUT SLEEP OVER A WEEK CEMENT CONTRACTOR VICTIM OF AWFUL PEST AND NERVOUS
 SYSTEM SHATTERED
WITHOUT SLEEP OVER 4 WEEK

| MESA, May 1i.--With the entir,
 cavity back ot the nose and under tn,
 eyes filed with a living, working mas
 ot screw worms graduaiiy eating tneii
 way through the deIIcate mempl ane.
 in the vicinity of the brain with the ia
 taiity of the obsolete gairotte, Alec
 Monett, a contractor, l.vlng in tenn | porary home on East Main street, has
 for the past week suffered agofy unde 1 scribable. During the time that the first excrucialing pains began shooting
 through the entire left side ot the
 face and head and up until he has
 finally received temporary ielief, he has
 rolled fiom one siae ot his cot to the
 other without hardly as much as clos. ing his eyes in sleep.
 MoHett was wished yesterday at his
 home and while his nervous system is
 in a pit!able condition on account of the
 strain placed upon it during the last
 few days, yet he was in manner able
 to recount few of the details relative
 to the case.
 MT. Motfett states that last Wednes. day, a week ago, he. came home from
 his work at the Mesa Dairy Ice com. pany. where he has a contIact to put in some cement work, and that he was of the opinion that he had an attack ot the grippe. He is- of the opinIon that whiie fylng out under the trees iri his yard, when ,6rst taken with the,grip, thai a hX.depos.ted the egg which has caused the condition e,pu1nefated above. According to the piySiciaps, an egg de ,posifei by" fly viii hatch 4 fina naan f56,iff, and the worm will immediately be. come active. MT. M6f6ff. states tPat he first noticed ,ssevere, pains solRmencing in hs lower jay and then extendng around to the rear of, his head and neck. These, pains, continued to increase until Friday, when he consulted "a pnysiGiah, who removed eighteen small worms by means of~the ord,nary.ehloroform- meth od. Mr. Moffett states ,tls&t hewas- tein- porarily relieved after this and, had be- gun to believe himself. on the road to ieGovery when the pans Ieturned and in a short time were even greater thaa at first. Added to the sharp pains ex tending arOand the side of the head we're the grinding and grating of the worms that nearly proved the undoing of the man. The douehe was freely used, but not until Sunday morning did the first Ieal life size worms begin. 70 make their appearance. At this time, over seven of them, some of them all inch in length were expelled from the man s nose and were yet. alive when placed in small vial. Monday Mr. Moffett called at the office of Dr. Pal mer and eighteen more of the life size worms were removed. Mir. Moffett was crazed with pain and knew not what he was doing, and even yet is subject to nervous ehills at short intervals. Drs. Drane and Palmer have the case in hand and are giving it their close at tention. They are of the opinion that the worms are nearly exterminated, if not entirely so, and the patient is of the same opinion.
 Mir. Moffett and family came here last November with several parties from Jerusalem, Ohio. He has worked as a cement contractor while in the city and is at present engaged at the Mesa Dairy and Tee eompany's plant. He worked at the Union high school building nn- til its completion. -'
 The physicians state that it is not an uncommon occurrence for screw worms to get in the nasal cavities, but the case of Moffett has offered compli- cations out of the ordinary.