Healey gives the history of four cases in
which medicinal leeches were removed from the mouth and posterior
nares of persons who had, for some days previously, been drinking
turbid water. Sinclair mentions the removal of a leech from the
posterior nares.
In some regions, more particularly tropical ones, there are
certain flies that crawl into the nostrils of the inhabitants and
deposit eggs, in the cavities. The larvae develop and multiply
with great rapidity, and sometimes gain admission into the
frontal sinus, causing intense cephalalgia, and even death.
Dempster reports an instance of the lodgment of numerous live
maggots within the cavity of the nose, causing sloughing of the
palate and other complications. Nicholson mentions a case of
ulceration and abscess of the nostrils and face from which
maggots were discharged. Jarvis gives the history of a strange
and repeated hemorrhage from the nose and adjacent parts that was
found to be due to maggots from the ova of a fly, which had been
deposited in the nose while the patient was asleep. Tomlinson
gives a case in which maggots traversed the Eustachian tube, some
being picked out of the nostrils, while others were coughed up.
Packard records the accidental entrance of a centipede into the
nostril.
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