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the swelling extending on Tuesday over the whole right side of 
the face. On this day, the fifth of the complaint, four large 
maggots dropped out of the right nostril. When I was first 
called to the patient, Monday, October 4, only the right lip and 
nostril were swollen, the acrid discharge having somewhat 
blistered the lips below. After each discharge the maggots 
dropped from the nostril, until the twelfth day; one hundred and 
forty or more maggots having escaped. The majority of the 
maggots were three-fourths of an inch in length, there being 
only a few which seemed a line or two shorter; they were of a 
yellow hue, conical shape, and having attached to one end two 
horn-like hooks. The patient recovered fully. 
Monday, September 18, 1882, I saw a patient in the same neigh- 
borhood as the first, suffering from the same malady. At that 
tme two hundred and eighty maggots had been discharged, and 
at the close of the illness, over three hundred, There was a 
swelling on each side of the nose, with a small opening to each. 
llanced these openings, and more maggots came out / 
In the Indian Territory the so-called screw-fly laid its eggs in 
nose of man. In 1847, I heard of several deaths of men 
and children in Texas, near Dallas. The gad-fly was common 
inthe American bottom forty years ago. It laid its eggs in the 
noses of cattle, and in the ears of horses and deer, but never in 
human nose. The fly that I send is about four times as 
Bee as the common fly. Head a dark, glistening green ; a bronze 
acs, very lively in appearance. Is it the same that they called 
m texas or Indian Territory the screw-fly ? or is it the gad-fly 
ng a new field ? 
cn pial of 1875 is now alive and well. The sgcond case 
Maggots at 
mouthed vial 
the ground į 
Until a : Ira 
ou may new generation of flies is produced from them. 
think I have dwelt too long on these cases ; but if 
