Compressed air illness, or, So-called caisson disease / by E. Hugh Snell.

  • Snell, E. Hugh.
Date:
1896
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    more by a sudden movement of the head backwards than by any other movement. There is a subjective feeling of oppression, as if a weight were hung at the back of the neck. A movement of the head suddenly to the right is more liable to bring on giddiness than a similar movement to the left. April nth: The giddiness is less; it only comes on when moving the head rapidly, especially backwards. April i6th : Hearing normal in left ear; on right side it is the same as before. [Pot. brom. gr. x. ter die sum.] April 23rd : Hearing on right side has improved ; soft- ticking watch heard | inch from ear. Slight improvement in giddiness. May 2nd: Intervals between attacks of giddiness of longer duration. May 8th : Tobacco smoking has brought on giddiness once or twice. Advised not to smoke. [Ext. ergotae liq. tii^xx. ter die sum.] May 15th : Says he is much better since the 8th. [Ext. ergotse liq. d^xv. ; liq. strychninae n^iii. ; liq. arsenicalis ir^ii. ex aqua ter die sum.] June 1st: No giddiness for the last two weeks. June 8th : The tinnitus on the right side continues, but not so loudly as at first. Hearing the same. If he stoops for any length of time the giddiness returns. June 18th : Vertigo gone. Walks out every day. [Ergot stopped.] He now resumes work again—not in the com- pressed air. Oct. 13th: Has had no return of the vertigo. The deafness in the right ear has not improved ; he still has noises in that ear, but is able to disregard them. Case XLIII.—Auditory vertigo. J. T., aet. 27, had worked in the Blackwall Tunnel