when Beethoven was going deaf,
top doctors prescribed
the insertion of radishes
in his ears.
The presence of olive oil in the picture,
however, suggests to me
that radishes were used as stoppers
before the invention of cotton wool.
Infection might have been impeded
by the addition of sage.
When I was a child, the only known use
for olive oil was for pouring into the ear
after warming,
to soften wax before syringing
by the unfriendly family doctor.
Thus I had ear-orgasms at an early age.
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| Now - you've guessed it - I have tinnitus. |
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