Otalgia considered as an affection of the sensory system of the seventh cranial nerve / by J. Ramsay Hunt.

  • Hunt, James Ramsay, 1872-1937.
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[1907]
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    / OTALGIA CONSIDERED AS AN AFFECTION OF THE SENSORY SYSTEM OF THE SEVENTH CRANIAL NERVE.1 By J. RAMSAY HUNT, M.D., New York, CHIEF OF THE NEUROLOGICAL CLINIC AND INSTRUCTOR IN NERVOUS DISEASES IN THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE; NEUROLOGIST TO THE CITY HOSPITAL. (With two illustrations on Text-Plate III.) HE object of the present study is to show the relation- ship of otalgia to the seventh cranial nerve; not of the facial nerve proper, but of its sensory system, which consists of the nerve of Wrisberg, the geniculate ganglion, and the petrosal nerves (great and small superficial pe- trosal, great and small deep petrosal, and the external petrosal nerves); also that otalgia bears 'the same relation to the facial nerve as does prosopalgia to the trifacial, and that in the facial nerve is to be found a sensory and reflex factor of great importance in the innervation of the auditory mechanism. Save for an uncertain relation to the taste fibres of the chorda tympani, the sensory mechanism of the facial has played no role in symp- tomatology, and has not had attached to it any definite sensory functions. In nearly all modern treatises on otology are to be ‘Read in abstract before the Section on Otology, New York Acad. Med., Oct. ii, 1907. INTRODUCTION ,