Aural surgery : a treatise on the curable forms of ear disease / by George P. Field.
- Field, George Purdey.
- Date:
- 1876
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Credit: Aural surgery : a treatise on the curable forms of ear disease / by George P. Field. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![due to irritation of the chorda tympani, and not (if the acoustic nerve; and says that the repeated injec- tion through the Eustachian catheter of a drop or two of a solution of strychnine—one grain to the ounce of water—will generally cure it. 1 In Holmes' System of Surgery, the author of the paper on the Ear says:— Of all medicines, a combination of quinine and morphia in small doses, taken perseveringly once or twice a-day, seems the most useful. Stimulating liniments around the ears, perhaps containing chloroform, if tinnitus is a promi- nent symptom, are at least unobjectionable ; and the free use of cold water and friction may in most cases be advised. I have never known any benefit pro- duced by strychnia.* Bromide of ammonium, ergot, digitalis, bromide of potassium (which I have found useful in several cases) have all been recommended: so have other more extraordinary remedies. A patient of mine at St. Mary's believed a bit of dead eel put in the ear, to be a capital thing for the buzzing noise. Dr. Laurence Turn bull, of Philadelphia, very kindly sent me his pamphlet on Tinnitus Aurium (reprinted from the Philadelphia Times, June, ] 874), in which there is very valuable information on the subject; but unfortunately it arrived after I had read my paper at the Harveian Society. He gives the diagnosis and causes, I think, so clearly that I cannot do better than quote from his instructive pages.f * The author has sometimes considerably lessened tinnitus in some forms of nerve-deafness by the administration of a mixture containing quinine, morphia, and strychnia. t Tinnitus Aurium, or Noises in the Ears, by Laurence Turn-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21446520_0136.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
