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Amazing stories involving human orifices, yet not involving sex.
More weird news from the Globe.

Ron


http://www.boston.com/dailynews/wirehtml/171/Revolving_into_view__an_eraser_tha
t.htm

[The Boston Globe Online][Boston.com]
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Revolving into view: an eraser that spent 15 years up a sailor's nose

Associated Press, 06/20/97 01:07

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - When Dr. Charles Emerick hears that a bug was
planted in someone's ear, he takes it literally.

In his3-year career as an ear, nose and throat specialist, the
67-year-old doctor has removed cockroaches that crawled into sailors'
ears while they slept, coins and small toys that got lodged in
children's throats, and safety pins that got stuck halfway to the
stomach.

And even though he retired seven years ago, the bespectacled,
gray-haired doctor still can reminisce about his patients by perusing
his collection of 450 items he has removed from them. The memorabilia
are kept in a revolving glass case at the Mount Scott Medical Office.

A birth control pill once jammed inside a woman's ear. A bottle cap
that was lodged in a man's throat. An eraser that spent 15 years up a
sailor's nose.

``He put it in when he was 6 years old, but he didn't tell anybody
because he thought he would get in trouble,'' Emerick said. ``Then he
forgot about it.

``He came to me because he was having trouble breathing through his
nose. When I removed it, he said, `Oh yeah, I put it up there when I
was a kid.'''

Emerick said he was inspired to keep the items because he heard that
Dr.  Chevalier Jackson, a pioneer in endoscopy, had such a
collection. (A spokesman for a building named for Jackson at Temple
University Hospital in Philadelphia said nothing remains of the
collection.)

Endoscopes - hollow, lighted tubes - are used to examine the
esophagus, trachea or lung. Once an obstruction is found, a second
instrument is inserted through the tube to grasp and remove the
blockage.

Each of Emerick's souvenirs is neatly wrapped in clear plastic and
bears a typed label identifying it and describing the patient.

Pointing to a small metal and plastic whistle, the doctor said, ``This
came from a 12-year-old boy. His parents said he whistled every time
he took a breath.''

A small package of decomposed insects: ``A kid ran into a swarm of
honey bees and I had to take a bunch of them from his nose.''

A piece of plastic: ``That's from a woman's oxygen line. She was
blowing out candles on a birthday cake while hooked to an oxygen
line. The oxygen exploded and this became lodged in her throat.''

Before coming to Portland, Emerick practiced at the San Diego Naval
Hospital and a missionary clinic in India.

Some of his most stomach-turning work was done in India.

``I removed an 11-inch round worm from the trachea of a 2-year-old
child in India,'' he said. ``It had come from the gut to the stomach
to the esophagus to the throat to the voice box and to the wind pipe.

``I got the scope in and I saw this thing looking at me.''


Copyright 1997 Globe Newspaper Company


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