Contributions to aural surgery / [W.R. Wilde].

  • William Wilde
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1844-1848
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Credit: Contributions to aural surgery / [W.R. Wilde]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blocked up with granulations, or closed by inflammation, those two latter methods are not always applicable. In the latter case, injecting fluids through the Eustachian tube is likewise in- , applicable. In most instances, however, the practised eye can at once determine the condition of the parts. Many persons who have moderate sized apertures in their tympanal membranes can, by pressing the air through the Eustachian tube, produce a whistling noise. Wherever the granulations grow from, whether from the membrane itself or from the walls of the tympanum, the means I find most useful for their eradication is the solid nitrate of sil¬ ver rubbed over the part about every second day, or oftener if necessary, and for this purpose I have for some time past em¬ ployed the little instrument marked a, and represented in the accompanying wood-cut: .~T~~ ~ ~~ ~ A This and all the other instruments here figured, except the scis¬ sors and forceps, are five and a-half inches long: it consists of a silver tube cut spirally for three-fifths of its length, and having an aperture in the side near the extremity. In using this port-
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