Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1882 — Boring the Ears. [ARTICLE]

Boring the Ears.

A great deal has been recently written on the subject of boring the ears “ for the sake of the eyes,” says the London Lancet. It is always easy to find excuses for any practice which ministers to vanity. That the counter-irritation set up by boring the ear and wearing a ring may, during the few days following the operation, have some effect on the eyes, supposing these organs to be the seat of any low form of inflammation, is just possible, but that permanent good