Imperfect hearing and the hygiene of the ear : including nervous symptoms, tinnitus aurium, aural vertigo, diseases of the naso-pharyngeal membrane, middle ear, and mastoid region : with home instruction of the deaf / by Laurence Turnbull.

  • Laurence Turnbull
Date:
1881
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Credit: Imperfect hearing and the hygiene of the ear : including nervous symptoms, tinnitus aurium, aural vertigo, diseases of the naso-pharyngeal membrane, middle ear, and mastoid region : with home instruction of the deaf / by Laurence Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CASE OF GIDDIN'I-- durat ;io defii - tained. The _ r suddenly became turning round, stagg h the right - in trying I >ver hi:. - se of movement on his part and in surrounding objects I until his admission. lie then complained much of a - seemed to be in his head, and of _'ion and behind the ears. His hear- ing at first - ... A watch was heard a good and equal c - .. ear. A tuuing-fork was heard at er, and 1 - .rd when sounding in cont ~ith I in var. is s, and in each ear it was incre; - sing the meatus. A watch was heard in cou- th the head and or. tl right side; closing the meatus - lc idness, On the left side, however, closing SB loud; but the watch had a double of the ear rendered one set - ina: s result was btained in every examination. ^The twasav a -t man. and his answers seemed re- liable, i A e after his admission he had another severe of giddi _ ifosion of sounds in his left His rest night was much disturbed, and be turned • - sep until 1 came : : the foot of the bed. Sometimes he lay curled ion id hanging bed. If hewer- _ed and put straight. tosk . : soon returned to the former ] - J had another attack of \ _ . which c i a slight - e hours, ai - me pec-:. nic spasm was : s right arm and leg. He ■: en his attention was directed to it. but when . a :ismodic movements .and being continually jerked up and down the hand kept st . a strium. A: :he time railing through the bed or swimming That an effort was : before he could was in bed. During the height of the atT : - whirling or humming noise in - -Joral and bromide of] sainm qui. him, and on bromide -;ura and iron he had no o: in the hospital.