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. 1881 Excerpt: ...of chronic non-suppurative disease of the middle ear, by stating that they are such as dispose to inflammation of mucous membrane. Our increased knowledge of the pathology of this tissue, will serve us in good stead in investigating the affections of a part which is thoroughly lined by it. CHAPTER XIII. CHRONIC NON ...
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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. 1881 Excerpt: ...of chronic non-suppurative disease of the middle ear, by stating that they are such as dispose to inflammation of mucous membrane. Our increased knowledge of the pathology of this tissue, will serve us in good stead in investigating the affections of a part which is thoroughly lined by it. CHAPTER XIII. CHRONIC NON-SUPPURATIVE INFLAMMATION OF THE MIDDLE EAR--Continued. TREATMENT. At the beginning of the preceding chapter a table wa given, showing at about what time in the history of their disease the patients from whose cases it was made up consulted the writer. It may be safely asserted, that the most of these persons never underwent any serious or rational local treatment until that time; so that we may assume that the greater number of persons in the United States who suffer from the form of disease under consideration, aro in the habit of waiting for a period of from five to twenty years before they attempt to get relief. We must certaiuly diminish the number of these cases before we can hope for brilliant results. The neglect of aural therapeutics by the last and the preceding generation now recoils upon us. Patients come very late for advice about their ears, because they have been taught, not by the laity, but by wise and skilful physicians, that it is not prudent to meddle with the ear; that they will outgrow its diseases, as soon as their constitution is invigorated; if young girls, that, when the menstrual function comes on, they will be all right, and so forth, while, during this time of delay, adhesions between the membrana tyinpani and the ossicula, and the walls of the cavity of the tympanum, havo been forming, and hypertrophy of the mucous meinbrano and atrophy of the tendons of the intraauricular muscles--in short, all the changes that we ha...
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