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action acute affected appearance applied arise attack attended auricle become body bone brain canal cause cavity changes character chronic circumstances closed common complained condition connected consequence considerable constitutional continued course deafness described directed discharge disease early enlarged especially Eustachian tube examination exist extending external fever frequently gradually head hearing important improved increased indicate inflammation injections instances internal irritation less lining mastoid process matter means meatus membrana tympani membrane mischief months morbid mucous membrane nature necessary nerve nervous noises observed occasionally occur operation organ origin otorrhoea pain pass passage patient persons portion practice present probably produced rarely relief remain remedies removed restored result rheumatic seat secretion seen severe side sometimes sound structure suffering surgeon symptoms thickened throat tion tonsils treated treatment tympanum ulceration usually
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Page 207 - But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot : he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas.
Page 195 - ... sketch of Dr Mitchell's paper. Sir W. Wilde, in an Appendix to his Aural Surgery, gives a very complete account of the history, of the tuition of deaf-mutes, and of the causes which produce the disease. He says consanguinity may be looked on as paramount. " Many conjectures have been offered on the subject, but the question has been set at rest by the results of the Irish census.
Page 217 - ... to place this sense among the most delightful as well as the .most important we possess. Whoever has witnessed and attentively observed the distressing effects arising from a loss or diminution of its sensibility will readily acknowledge that such deprivation throws us at a distance from our fellow-creatures and in the present state of society renders us more solitary beings, than the loss of sight itself.
Page 22 - ... paroxysms, and recurring with great violence when the head is bent downwards. Sometimes the pain is excited by merely touching the scalp, and the patient is unable to rest his head on the affected side or even lean it on a pillow. The pain in most cases is remittent, the paroxysm coming on at four, six, or eight o'clock in the evening, continuing during the night, being most severe about midnight, and suffering an abatement towards...
Page 94 - Saunders advised paracentisis of the membrana tympani in cases of acute suppuration of the tympanumj — an operation that was revived by Schwartze a few years ago. He says : " But let it be admitted that the tympanum has suppurated, ought the membrana tympani to be abandoned to a casual ulceration, or is it better to open it by art ? I am inclined to prefer the latter, and if I can be assured, by any symptom, that suppuration has taken place, I should not hesitate to make a small perforation of...
Page 136 - Hemicrania, neuralgia, pains affecting the eyeballs, the ears, the fauces, the teeth, and the lumbar regions, are all premonitory of gout. I have seen the tonsils so sharply seized with gout, as, in the absence of any considerable degree of inflammation, to induce me almost to accuse my patient of exaggeration, till an unequivocal symptom of gout explained the mystery. The same thing is very frequently witnessed in the teeth, where severe toothache, without the smallest decay of these organs, owes...
Page 203 - Dialectica, as an illustration of " the immense and almost incredible power of the human mind," he instances "as little less than miraculous, what he himself had witnessed — a person deaf from infancy, and consequently dumb, who had learned to understand writing, and, as if possessed of speech, was able to write down his whole thoughts.
Page 97 - ... hot and tender to the touch. In addition to this, we were informed by the nurse that she had been seized with a sudden fit of vomiting shortly after we left the ward on the day before. Here was an array of threatening symptoms calculated to awaken attention in any, even the most heedless observer. A patient, after exposure to cold, is attacked with symptoms of fever ; she has headache and restlessness ; she then begins to complain of acute pain in the ear, darting inwardly towards the brain ;...
Page 113 - ... along the tentorium. In some cases there is a superficial abscess of the brain itself, or of the cerebellum, often with effusion into the ventricles, and the other usual marks of general disease in the brain. Matter is also frequently found in the cells of the petrous portion, in the canals of the ear, and in the cavity of the tympanum, and sometimes it extends into the cells of the mastoid process, and is occasionally found in the brain itself, constituting a true abscess.
Page 99 - Edinburgh, several years ago, after the usual symptoms in the head, had lain for three or four days in a state of perfect coma, and her situation was considered as entirely hopeless. Her medical attendants, paying their visit as a matter of form, were astonished to find her one day sitting up and free from complaint; a copious discharge of matter had taken place from the ear with immediate relief, and she continued afterwards in good health. It is, however, by no means certain, that in such a case...