On deafness, giddiness, and noises in the head / by Edward Woakes.

  • Woakes, Edward, 1837-1912.
Date:
1880
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Credit: On deafness, giddiness, and noises in the head / by Edward Woakes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ♦ ■ In collecting for the foUowing pages these studies of certain phenomena attending disease of the ear and its allied organs, two principal objects have been ke])t in view by the author. The first of these has been to examine the various conditions, competent to give rise to the symptoms in question, in order to assign each to its respective causes. At the outset of this undertaking it was evident that very scant assistance was to be obtained from aural text books, because in confronting every obscure problem associated with the etiology of Giddiness and Noises in the Head, one explanation was invariably made to do duty for all, that, viz., of referring them to some subjec- tive state of the auditory nerve. To attempt to recover the subject from this ambigu- ous position, it became necessary on theoretical, but especially on practical grounds, to examine it from a point of view unoccupied by previous observers. About ten years ago, while considering the asso- ciation of neuralgia with herpes, and the analogous phenomena attending wounds of nerves, the author became aware that in numerous instances in the economy, the local connexions of vaso-motor inner- vation are such, that given tracts of tissue, not otherwise connected, are thereby habitually kept in nutritive correlation one with another. Between any two areas thus correlated so intimate is the relation
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