The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 81886 |
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Page 340 - ... transmitted by the peripheral organs of sensation; or the failure to properly co-ordinate such impressions, and to thereon frame logical conclusions and actions : these inabilities and failures being in every instance considered as excluding the ordinary...
Page 343 - ... essential part of success, depends on cleaning every portion of the auditory apparatus thoroughly, and in having it perfectly dry before using the powder. After this is accomplished, pack the auditory canal full of the powder, using gentle pressure, so as to force the powder through the perforation into the middle ear, and place a little plug of cotton to retain the powder in situ. Do not attempt to blow the powder into the ear with one of the many insufflators in the market, and as recommended...
Page 342 - ... something to break." Most cases of ear ache can be relieved by syringing with hot water and the use of dry heat externally, and the occasional application of a leech to the mastoid process. If this does not relieve the inflammation at once, and it goes on to suppuration, the general practitioner ought to be able to perforate the drum and let the pus escape. With reflected light it is no more difficult than to open an abscess. The danger of the extension of the inflammation to the brain and its...
Page 358 - It is very wrong to give her brandy and water ; it is the first stage of some eruptive fever. But a teaspoonful won't make any difference, and it will show that I did not differ from you. If I had,' he said, with a kind of smile, 'perhaps they would not believe either of us.