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.

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    labouring under this severe affliction she lost her place, and was out of employment for eighteen months. Proper treatment removed her ailments. She is now quite well, again employed in a comfortable situation, and truly grateful for the benefits she has received at the Dispensary. A third and a very common disease may be described as an herpetic eruption appearing chiefly on the external part of the ear, but not unfrequently involving the passage. It causes a thickening of the skin, and some- times even a discharge from the meatus ; the thickening occasionally closes the passage and brings on deafness. The disease is very frequent among children, and among them is common at a very early period of life. Some- times, however, we meet with it in grown up people, and it prevails among those of a scro- fulous habit. In such cases, along with ap- propriate local treatment, it is necessary to attend to the constitution, and to correct its depraved state by means of alteratives. Its duration is much influenced by the state of the general health; and, upon the whole, it