The nature and treatment of diseases of the ear, tr. by J.R. Bennett1837 |
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Strana 203 - ... applies his ear close to that which is under examination, opens the cock of the machine, and listens to the sound made by the air rushing into the middle ear." . . " When the Eustachian tube and cavity of the tympanum are perfectly free and open, the air flowing in strikes without interruption and with an audible shock against the membrana tympani. When the first shock of so strong a stream of air is over, or, if it was not very violent, we hear, during the continuance of the streaming in of...
Strana 109 - ... differentiate them from polyps. Kramer ( 1837) , says, speaking of polypoid conditions: These granulations may be either soft, spongy, of a very red colour, vesicular, bleeding readily on the slightest touch, sensitive, covered with copious mucous secretion, pedunculated, or globular; or they may be broad of base, and be of cartilaginous or almost bony hardness, insensible, bleeding little or not at all, and rather of a pale red colour. (P. 107.) One case in particular I cannot avoid here mentioning....
Strana 193 - ... of five lines from the further extremity, exactly at an angle of 144°, so as to correspond with the lateral situation of the mouth of the Eustachian tube. They are of the same calibre throughout their whole length, and provided with a funnel-shaped dilatation at the proximal extremity, six inches in length, in order to admit the pipe of the injecting syringe, &c. To this dilated part there is attached a ring, on the same level with the beak of the catheter, by means of which the situation of...
Strana 190 - Only inflammation of the mucous membrane of the Eustachian tube and of the cavity of the tympanum, with its...
Strana 193 - Their extremity is well rounded, and they are curved only to the distance of five lines from the further extremity, exactly at an angle of 144°, so as to correspond with the lateral situation of the mouth of the Eustachian tube. They are of the same calibre throughout their whole length, and provided with a funnel-shaped dilatation at the proximal extremity, six inches in length, in order to admit the pipe of the injecting syringe, &c.
Strana 232 - ... short time, and repeated every two or three days, until the object is accomplished. The application is followed by a pungent smarting, which continues for twenty or thirty minutes, but by no other inconvenience.
Strana 194 - TUBE. of a middle piece made of metal, bent so as to fit the arch of the forehead, and slightly padded within; to this are attached two straps, which fasten with a buckle. To the centre of the middle piece, a pair of forceps are attached, which move in a ball and socket joint, and the blades of which are brought together by a screw. The bandage is applied before the catheterism is commenced; and when...
Strana 262 - In both forms of nervous deafness I have almost always found the membrana tympani white, like paper, and opaque.
Strana 208 - ... exemplification of the truth of Kramer's observation, that " such obstructions may last for years, nay, even during the whole life of the patient, without any effort being made by nature to free herself of the disease; nor does the nature of the disease become in the least changed in the course of time — it is, and continues to be, an accumulation of mucus, however long it may exist.
Strana 193 - ... and of a calibre varying from the size of a small crow-quill to that of a large goose-quill.