System of diseases of the ear, nose, and throat Volume 1
Charles Henry Burnett
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...otitis media was characteristic. 1 A Clinical Memoir on Certain Diseases of the Eye and Ear consequent on Inherited Syphilid By Jonathan Hutchinson. 1 Op. cit. Report of One Hundred Cases of Diseases of the Ear. By J. J. Kirk Duncanson. Edinburgh, 1878. Archiv fur Ohrenhcilkunde, Bd. iv. S. 258, 18G9. 6 Lehrbuch der Ohrenheilkunde. Virchow's Arehiv, Bd. xvii. S. 19, Case V. « Deutsche Klinik, 1868, 41-48. 7 Clinical Remarks on Perforation and some other Morbid Conditions of the Membrana Tympani. Supplement to Toynbee's Text-Book, p. 461. London, 1868. » Monatsschrift fiir Ohrenheilkunde, 1869, Nov. S. 169. » Archives of Otology, 1880, vol. U. p. 146. Kipp1 reported the histories of six cases, all of whom were females, ranging in age from six to twenty-three years. In five of them the aural invasion was preceded by parenchymatous keratitis. In all of these cases tinnitus aurium, headache, vertigo, and staggering accompanied or followed the attack, and the loss of hearing was very sudden in five, in the sixth more gradual. In none was there any pain accompanying the attacks, and the Eustachian tubes were permeable in all of them. Kipp states that the appearance of the drum-heads in four of his subjects made it seem prol)able that the deafness was partially due to catarrhal otitis media, although the latter could hardly account, in his estimation, for the great amount of deafness. He considered, therefore, that an affection of the labyrinth or acoustic nerve existed in these cases. Kipp is inclined, moreover, to the assumption of a lesion in the floor of the fourth ventricle, from which loth nerves arise, as this might account for the simultaneous loss of hearing in both ears. Buck2 reported a case of congenital syphilitic ear-disease in a male ...