Compressed air illness, or, So-called caisson disease / by E. Hugh Snell.

  • Snell, E. Hugh.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Compressed air illness, or, So-called caisson disease / by E. Hugh Snell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    it would not be inopportune to observe that if there is one situation in the body where the sudden intrusion of a small bubble of gas might be expected to produce immediate and sudden symptoms of a grave character, that situation is the delicately constructed interior of the bony-walled cavities of the internal ear.