Letters, May 21, 1934

Cricket Delivery

Sirs:

Re: TIME, issue of May 7, p. 72, last column-Bug in an Ear."

"...Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician supped his forceps into her aural canal drew out an object. ... The laboratory reported that it was ... the skeleton of a cricket.

I hope that he used the otologists forceps, and not his obstetrical forceps.

You meant to say otologist, not obstetrician, did you not?

Although many an obstetrician would gladly deliver anything for a fee, these days, even the skeleton of a cricket. MARIO A. CASTALLO, M. D.

P. S. Did...

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