First principles of otology : a text-book for medical students / by Albert H. Buck.

  • Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922.
Date:
1899
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Credit: First principles of otology : a text-book for medical students / by Albert H. Buck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    cavity ; but when the term is used in its stricter sense it is intended that it shall include, besides the tympanic cav- ity proper, the Eustachian tube and all that system of pneu- matic spaces which are situated behind, above, below, and outside the tympanum, and which receive their air-supply from this central cavity. The term internal ear is ap- Ftg. 17.—Hard-rubber Ear-syringe. plied to that complex system of cavities which are known more specifically as the vestibule, the cochleal whorls, the semi-circular canals, and the aquaeductus vestibuli and aquaeductus cochleae. The term labyrinth is synonymous with that of internal ear, and is employed—on the whole— more frequently than the latter. When I come to discuss the diseases of these different subdivisions of the ear, I will give further details relating to the anatomy of each and to the methods of examining them.