Calhoun mentions an instance of disease of the ear which he found was due to the presence of several living maggots in the interior of the ear.

The patient had been sleeping in a horse stall in which were found maggots similar to those extracted from his ear.

An analogous instance was seen in a negro in the Emergency Hospital, Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1894; and many others are recorded.

The insects are frequently removed only after a prolonged lodgment.
D'Aguanno gives an account of two instances of living larvae of the musca sarcophaga in the ears of children.

In one of the cases the larvae entered the drum-cavity through a rupture in the tympanic membrane.