耳管の有生異物（蛔虫）による中耳炎例

　蛔虫は人体寄生虫として栄養障碍，中毒症状の他に，その異所転移性によつて種々複雑な症状を起し，診断を困難にする事があるのは周知の事実である。

　吾が耳鼻咽喉科領域に於ても中耳，耳管，鼻腔，副鼻腔，食道，気管等各種器管に渉つて直接，間接の障碍を与えるものである事は，嘗つて鈴木氏が耳鼻咽喉科（10巻11号）に総括記載し，一般の注意を喚起している処である。

Uchida reports a case of otitis media that was caused by intrusion of ascaris from the nasal end of the auditory tube. An acute purulent otitis media developed in a male infant, aged 4, who complained of an acute earache precee-ding the development and who, for 3 days thereto, had suffered severe intermittant cough-ing spells. The drum membrane of the affec-ted ear was incised : 4 days later through this opening was discovered an expulsion of ascaris that measured 8cm in length and 1.5 cm in its largest diameter. After which the recovery in the patient was uneventful.