Medicine: Bug in an Ear

Bug in an

"Ha ha," a Mr. Boudreau of White Plains, N. Y. used to laugh to friends of his 23-year-old wife Catherine, "she thinks she's got a bug in her ear.'' Mr. Boudreau's skepticism seemed justified for, as his wife admitted, nothing had entered her ear since a cricket flew in, and that happened when she was an 8-year-old girl playing on her father's farm in Galway, Ireland. But last week Mr. Boudreau was confounded, Mrs. Boudreau triumphant.

Mrs. Boudreau had had pains in her ear off & on for 15 years. Last week...

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