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The following case, which is interesting in more than one particular, will show of what use an extracting instrument may be. A coloured woman, twenty-two years of age, came to me, and desired me to take out from her ear a cockroach which, she said, had crawled into it during the night. This request seemed to me so strange that I was at first incredulous; but, upon examining her ear, I found that what she had stated was literally true; for, some distance up the auditory canal, was the greater portion of a medium sized cockroach. Seeing that this was a case for the use of instruments, I endeavoured to extract the body with a pair of forceps, but it was so firmly impacted that I did not succeed. I then used an earscoop-which is but a modification of the loop of wire-and, after some little difficulty, I removed en masse the head, thorax, wings, and the two anterior pairs of legs of a cockroach. I was at first much surprised at the size of the body; but, upon questioning the woman, I found that, in attempting to remove the insect, she had broken away the soft parts and pushed the hard chitinous mass, which I extracted, far into the canal.

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O artigo analisa a tradução de Isaías 52.15, particularmente, as diferenças de interpretação do termo יַזֶּה. As versões modernas divergem na tradução desse verbo, e essa divergência não se limita à terminologia, mas traz implicações ao próprio sentido da frase. Há pelo menos dois campos de sentido representados nas traduções: o primeiro corresponde a “borrifar”, “aspergir”; e o segundo, a “causar admiração”, “assombrar”, “causar espanto”. O argumento desenvolvido é o de que, para se interpretar essa passagem, precisa-se recorrer não apenas às evidências textuais, lexicais e gramaticais, mas também aos aspectos sintáticos e discursivos da unidade e seu contexto.