A guide to the study of ear disease / by P. Mcbride.

  • McBride, P. (Peter), 1854-1946.
Date:
[1884]
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    is usually accompanied by pain in the ear. This so far I have been unable to confirm. Ziemssen believes that, under certain circumstances, pain radiating towards the ear is of value as confirming the malignant nature of laryngeal neoplasms. Thus out of thirteen cases of malignant disease in the larynx, pain in the ear was experienced in nine. A very common cause of earache is to be found in the presence of carious teeth or stumps, which produce a reflex aural neuralgia. While not denying that neuralgic pain in the ear may be due to malarial poison or other causes, yet in a climate such as ours earache without inflammation of the meatus or middle ear, and unaccompanied by throat symptoms, will generally be found to owe its origin to this cause. Very often in these cases there is a history of toothache, which may be no longer present. Generally the pain is strictly localized in the ear at first; frequently, how- ever, it spreads and attacks not only the whole area supplied by the fifth nerve, but also the occipital or mammary regions. Locomotor Ataxia.1 — Erb found atrophy of the auditory nerve in some cases, while Pomeroy and M'Bride consider progressive deafness in locomotor ataxia to be common. The latter observed impair- ment of hearing, which was sometimes transitory, in every case he examined. Hysterical affections of the ear.2—Writing on this subject, Burnett says : £Dr. T. Weir Mitchell has called my attention to what he terms hysterical deafness. 1 Schwartze, Path. Analomie des Ohres, p. 128. Pomeroy, Diseases of the Ear, p. 363. * Burnett, Diseases of the Ear, p. 495. Urbantschitsch, Lehrbuch da- Ohren- heilkunde, p. 484. Walton, Deafness in hysterical hemianaisthesia Brain, vol. v. 458. Weber Lie], ' Uober den Einfluss sexueller Irritationen auf Aflectioncn des Gehbrorgans,' Monatsschrift fur Ohrenheilkimde, Sept. 1883. N