A study of some casts of the infantile pharynx : with special reference to the Eustachian tube ; A note on Eustachian obstruction ; Partial bibliography of recent papers relating to the Eustachian tube / by William C. Braislin.

  • Braislin, William C. (William Coughlin), 1865-1948.
Date:
1909
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Credit: A study of some casts of the infantile pharynx : with special reference to the Eustachian tube ; A note on Eustachian obstruction ; Partial bibliography of recent papers relating to the Eustachian tube / by William C. Braislin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the elastic fibres surround the cartilage cells. Occasionally there are vascular channels in the cartilage which generally carry veins. The fatty degeneration of the cartilage, occasionally appearing, is regarded by the author as responsi- ble for the fragmentation of the tubal cartilage.” Roaldes, A. W. de, Otological Pecularities of the Negro. Rev. de Laryngol. et d’ Otol., XV., 1895, pp. 1169-1182. Among other differences noted, the mouths of the E. tubes are stated to be larger, the naso-pharynx much more spacious, deaf-mutism rarer. Roure, M., On the Passage of Bougies in the Tubes in Cases of Dry Middle Ear Catarrh. Bull, de laryngol., otol., et rhinol., VII., 1904, p. 250. Uses a steel bougie and a modi- fied catheter. Royet, Adhesions of the Eustachian Tube to the Posterior Pharyngeal Wall as a Cause for Progressive Sclerosing Otitis and Symptoms of Vertigo. Archiv. internat. de Laryngol., d’ otol., et de Rhinol., XVII., 1904, p. 371-3 97. The cause of progressing deafness is assigned by R. to the broad adhesions of the pharyngeal opening of the Eusta- chian tube to the posterior pharyngeal wall. After division of these adhesions with the finger the author believes he has observed cases of recovery, improvement or at least a bar to its progress. Rumbold, Thos. P., Functions of the Eustachian Tube. St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, July 20 to Sept. 5, 1880. Rumbold, Thos. M., Remarks on the Inflation of the Middle Ear. Laryngoscope, II., 1897, pp. 291-294. R. believes two ob- jects are accomplished by infiation with the Politzer bag: (1.) removal of a plug of mucus from the tube of the middle ear cavity: (2.) restoration of the normal atmospheric pres- sure of the middle ear. Schade, Migration of a Nail from the Naso-pharynx into the Middle Ear. Deutsche Med. Wochenschr., XXVIII., 1902, p. 796. Four years previously the patient extracted a nail from a box with his teeth. He swallowed the nail and suffered pain in his throat for some time. Attempts at extraction failed. Lately after a violent motion sudden pain occurred in the left ear and in three days the patient was able to extract the nail out of the ear. It was 12 mm. long, 1 mm. thick and bent in the middle. [There seems to be no proof that the nail passed through the tube. B.].