Aural surgery : a treatise on the curable forms of ear disease / by George P. Field.

  • Field, George P.
Date:
1876
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Aural surgery : a treatise on the curable forms of ear disease / by George P. Field. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    14/160
    Vlll Chapter III. CHRONIC AURAL CATARRH. The most frequent cause of deafness. Its patho- logy. Simple mucous catarrh in children The use of the Politzer air-bag. Professor Griiber on making pervious the Eustachian tube, and of inflating the tympanum. Various sounds heard through the otoscope or diagnos- tic tube. Removal of tonsils. Accumulation of fluid in the tympanum. Effect produced by long closure of the Eustachian tube. Simple obstruction of the tube in chronie catarrh 44—54 Chapter IV. CHRONIC AURAL CATARRH—(continued). The Eustachian catheter. Mode of its introduc- tion into the Eustachian tube. Precautions to be observed. Injection of fluids into the tympanum. The air-douche. Paracentesis of the membrana tympani. Facial paralysis. The anatomy of the tympanum and of the membrana tympani. Injury to the chorda tympani nerve ...... 66 —81 Chapter V. OTORRHGEA. Its causes. Constitutional treatment. The choice of astringent applications . . . 82—85