Aural surgery : a treatise on the curable forms of ear disease / by George P. Field.
- Field, George Purdey.
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Aural surgery : a treatise on the curable forms of ear disease / by George P. Field. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![of the deep-seated parts of the ' organ. This is not to be effected by syringing merely, however vigorous and long-continued. Water does not remove the tenacious matter, nor, probably, does the stream reach the whole secreting surface. I have found, almost invari- ably, that aural polypi arise from the mucous membrane of the tympanum, and not from the ] walls of the external meatus* but they occasionally take their | origin from the membrana tym- pani, and sometimes from the Eustachian tube. They are, as a rule, the result of long-stand- ing otorrhoea, and the polypus makes its way out through a perforation in the membrana tympani. They vary consider- ably in structure, size, &c. Ac- cording to Stendener, the polypi which occur most frequently in the ear are mucous, the firm fibromata are less common, and the gelatinous myxomata the rarest. All kinds of methods have been proposed for then- removal. Toynbee and Allen each invented an instrument— the former the lever ring: for- ° TOYNBEE'8](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21446520_0127.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
