Tinnitus aurium, or, noises in the ears / by Laurence Turnbull.

  • Turnbull, Laurence, 1821-1900.
Date:
1875
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    ear, and the other, as a wet compress, placed around the forehead of the corresponding side. Frequent inversions of the direction of the current are useful.” One successful case is reported. George P. Field, M.R.C.S., Aural Surgeon to St. Mary’s Hospital, and Lecturer on Aural Surgery in the Medical School, London, has published a paper on “Tinffitus Aurium” (8vo, cloth), read before the Harveian Society of London. We have not seen the paper, but take the following abstract of a notice of it from the Medical Press and Cir- cular, July, 1875 : “The remedies used in times past are touched upon, and finally the treatment which he suggests— namely, faradization of the membrana tympani and of the intrinsic muscles of the ear—is illustrated by recording some fifteen cases under treatment, together with the results obtained. “He uses Dr. Stohrer’s double-celled induction apparatus, and passes the current directly on to the membrana tympani by means of a vulcanite specu- lum with a piece of platinum wire passed through it and attached to one of the wires of the battery. As the speculum is not actually in contact with the membrana tympani, a silver probe is made to touch the platinum and at the same time the membrana tympani. A very weak current is applied at first, and gradually strengthened. If the current is too strong, hemorrhage or acute pain may be the result. “ The fifteen cases reported are from among cases treated by Mr. Field at the hospital, and have therefore been shown to and explained to the pupils of the medical school. “Without going into a description of the cases, it may be sufficient to say that in all various noises and singing in the ears gradually disappeared under the repeated application of the current, and that in all the deafness decreased, as shown by the distance at which the watch could be heard.”