Clinical notes : ear diseases / by Thomas Barr.

  • Barr, Thomas, 1846-1916.
Date:
1885
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    tion, may produce paralysis of the facial nerve without ulcerative disease of ^the bone, and therefore without the same gloomy prognosis. 3. The recovery of fair hearing also illustrates a fact which is not unfrequently observed—namely, that fair hearing may exist even when the tympanic membrane is almost quite destroyed. What is of more importance than the presence of the tympanic membrane is a normal mobility of the fenestral structures. If these structures, with the stapes, are not thickened, bound down by ad- hesions, or subjected to pressure, fair hearing power may be enjoyed, although the membrane, with even the malleus and incus, should have been swept away. 4. This case also shows in a striking way the value of treatment by rectified spirit in purulent disease of the middle ear associated with granular excrescences.