On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley.

  • Yearsley, James, 1805-1869.
Date:
1855
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Credit: On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may be modified by constitutional causes is no doubt quite true, and scrofula may be named, specially in the young, as an undoubted example. But its manifest origin is, in a great majority of cases, from causes that are local and that act directly on the ear itself; the visible, consequent alteration of the tissues that takes place consisting usually in a turgid, if not fungoid, state of the lining mem- brane; the readiness with which both these and the discharge yield, and all vestiges of the disease dis- appear under a mode of local treatment now ad- vocated, without being followed by any of the un- toward effects which we are cautioned to expect— these are all reasons which, when combined, are more than sufficient to show how little claim otor- rhoea can have to be considered generally as a disease of constitutional origin. That an affection so little amenable to the modes of local treatment usually had recourse to, should, in the end, come to be looked on as one of constitutional, rather than of local origin, admits of a ready explanation; but beyond constitutional states that may be coincident with this, as they may be coincident with any other local disease, I can see no ground for making any such exclusive admission in favour of otorrhoea. Otorrhoea may occur in persons of all ages; but the young are more liable than the aged, and the feeble, sickly, and ill-fed than the robust and