Arizona republican., 1909-05-05
Over Sixty Screw Worms
 Taken From Nasal Cdvitq NO SLEEP FOR A WEEK
Alex Moffet, Mesa Contractor is the Victim of Greatest of Pests--- Nervous System Has Sustained a Terrible Shock.

With the entire cavity back of the nose and under the eyes filled with living working mass of screw worms gradually eating their way through the delicate membranes in the vicin- ity of the brain with the fatality of the obsolete garrotte, Alec Moffett, a contractor living in a temporary home on East Main street has for the past week suffered agony undescrib- able. During the time that the first excruciating pains began shooting through the entire left side of his face and head and up until he has finally received temporary relief, he has rolled from one side of his cot to the other without hardly as much as closing his eyes in sleep.
 Moffett was visited yesterday at his home and while his nervous sys- tenn is in a pitiable condition on ac- count of the strain placed upon 1t during the past few days, yet. he was in a manner able to recount a few of the details relative to the case.
 MT Moffett states that last We'd nesday. week ago, he came home from his work at the Mesa Dairy and lee company where he has a contract to put in some cement work, and that he was of the opinion that he had an attack of the grip. He is of the opinion that while lying out un- der the trees in his yard when first taken with the grip, that fly de- posited the egg which has caused the condition enumerated above. Ac- cording to the physicians, an egg de- posted by a fly will hatch in an hour and the worm will immediate Iy become active. Mir. 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 con tinued to increase until Friday, when he consulted a physician who re- moved eighteen small worms by means of the ordinary chlOroform method Mir Moffett states that he was temporarily relieved after this and had begun to believe himself on the road to recovery when the pains returned and in a short time were even greater than at first Added to the sharp pains extending around the side of the head were the grinding and grating of the worms that near Iv proved the undoing of the man The douche was freely used, but moi until Sunday morning did the first real life size worms begin to make their appearance. At this time ovel seven. some of them an inch IT length. were expelled from the man nose and were yet alive when placed in a small vial. Monday MT. Moftet called at the office of Dr. Palmer and eighteen more of the life siz' worms were removed. MT. Moffet
 was craZed with pain and knew no
 what he was doing, and even yet + subject to nervous chills at short in teryals. Drs. Drane and Palmer have the case in hand and are giving I their close attention. They are of th' opinion that the worms are nearly exterminated. if not entirely so, anC the patient is of the same opinion.
 MT. 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 Ice company plant. He worked at the Union higf school building until it's completion
 The physicians state that it is moi an uncommon occurrence for screw worms to get in the nasal cavities but the case of Moffett has offered complications out of the ordinary.