A clinical report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear : with remarks on the objects and utility of the institution / by John Harrison Curtis.

  • Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860.
Date:
1827
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Credit: A clinical report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear : with remarks on the objects and utility of the institution / by John Harrison Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    yield to appropriate constitutional treatment. The following instances, selected from the registers of the Dispensary, will throw further light on the subject. Case III. Samuel Mortimer, aged 24, was admitted a patient, having caught a severe cold by travelling during the night on the outside of a Bath coach. Soon after this he was seized with most excruciating pain in the ear, which rendered him at times insen- sible, and exhibited all the characteristics of acute Otitis. From the severity of the dis- order he was thrown out of employment, but by the use of active means for the reduction of the inflammation, he was soon enabled to return to his proper business. Case IV. Mary Wilson, aged 41, a domestic servant, had lost her place through a chronic inflammation of the ear. This woman had been subject to severe tooth-ache, which ter- minated in the disorder now mentioned.— The pain in the ear continued, without inter- mission, even after the extraction of the ca- rious teeth ; and was so severe as to affect the head, threatening inflammation of the brain and its membranes. Of course, while