Three cases of cerebral abscess consequent upon suppurative disease of the middle ear, with remarks / by Thomas Barr.
- Barr, Thomas, 1846-1916
- Date:
- [1880]
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![Heprinlfdfrom the Gla.-<;ion> Medical Journal for Julij, ISSO.] THREE CASES OF CEREBRAL ABSCESS CONSE- QUENT UPON SUPPURATIVE DISEASE OF THE MIDDLE EAR, WITH REMARKS. By THOMAS BARR, M.D., Aural Surgeoa to Western Infirmary, Glasgow ; Lecturer on Aural Surgery, Anderson's College, Glasgow. (Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Olasgoiu, 2nd April, 1880.) Gentlemen,—In inviting your attention, this evening, to the fatal consequences which are sometimes developed out of suppurative diseases of the ear, I venture to say that the importance of the subject is in inverse proportion to the atten- tion which medical men have hitherto devoted to it. Discharge from the ear is, I fear, in too many cases, viewed with indiffer- ence by the profession, as well as by the public. Why is it thought so lightly of by some members of the profession? I believe it is very much from a want of due appreciation of the real source of the discharge. Otorrhoea is not a disease, but the result of disease. It is, in the great majority of cases, really an expression of a diseased process in the deep parts of the ear within the tympanic membrane. The purulent matter from the simple running ear which has lasted for any length of time, is, with few exceptions, secreted by the mucous lining of the middle ear, in whole or in part, and escapes thence through a perforation in the tym- panic membrane, which may vary in size from a pin point to almost total destruction. By the middle ear anatomists under- stand the tympanum. Eustachian tube, and mastoid cells. If we exclude the cartilaginous part of the Eustachian tube, the middle ear consists of cavities hollowed out in the temporal Done, filled with air and lined by a mucous membrane in the most mtimate nutritive relation with the periosteum beneath. 13 very important to keep in mind this remarkable anatom-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21457529_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
