Memorandum on the presence of air in the middle ear as a sign of live birth / by Francis Ogston.
- Francis Ogston
- Date:
- [1875?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Memorandum on the presence of air in the middle ear as a sign of live birth / by Francis Ogston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Reprinted from the ^Brit. and For. Med.-CUr. Review ’ October ^ 1875.] Memoranduni on the Presence of Air in the Middle Ear as a Sign of Live Birth. By Brancis Ogston, M.D., Assistant- Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Aberdeen University. In the 'Monatsschrift fiir Ohrenheilkunde/ 1868, Dr. Eobert M^reden, of St. Petersburg, in a series of articles on the condition ot the ear at and soon after birth, directs the attention of medical iurists to the entrance of air into the middle ear, and the disappear¬ ance of the gelatinous substance which fills the tympanic cavity prior and up to the birth of the child. ^ He states that this substance disappears within twenty-four hours after birth; that a twelve hours respiration is not sufhcient to effect its complete disappearance ; and concludes by suggesting that the occurrence of air in this situation might be of importance in a medico-legal point of view, as proving that respiration had taken ^ That these statements have been made without sufficient grounds, and that they require considerable modification, the following fifteen cases, collected partly by Dr. Alexander Ogston and partly by myself, seem to prove:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30573439_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
