On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley.

  • Yearsley, James, 1805-1869.
Date:
1856
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Credit: On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    which it depends ; and hence, also, the great im- portance of my remedy, by which this may, in almost every case, he so easily, so safely, and so surely accomplished. When, on the other hand, the disease originates in the internal ear, the fluid there formed, making for itself a passage through the membrana tympani, gives rise to inflammation of the external meatus also ; so that the external and internal ear—the membrana tympani being in part or wholly de- stroyed—become united into one common cavity, from every part of which the discharge is, in such cases, derived,—if, indeed, that can be called a cavity where the turgid state of the tissues scarcely leaves an issue for the discharge of the secretion. There are, moreover, some rare varieties of otorrhoea in which the affection cannot be con- sidered as idiopathic, nor yet as symptomatic, but which may more properly be denominated spurious ; for in the examples I would designate by this appellation, the discharge, though passing through the ear, is not furnished by the ear itself, but is derived from a source more remote—the ear, before it becomes itself inflamed by the constant contact of an irritating fluid, furnishing to this discharge nothing more than a passage. Of this kind are various instances mentioned by Itard and others, where the discharge proceeded from an abscess