The Meniere symptom-complex / by S.P. Goodhart.

  • Goodhart, Simon P. (Simon Philip), 1873-
Date:
1908
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    [Keprlnted froiii Medical Review of REViKWA^New York .July. 190H.] THE MENIERE SYMPTOM-COMPLEX By S. P. Goouh.xrt, Ph.B., M.D., Neurologist to New York Red Cross Hospital; Chief of Clinic, Mt. Sinai Hospital Dis- pensary, Department of Nervous Dis- eases; Assistant in Neurology, Vanderbilt Clinic, New York. 'I'o the instructive studies of Meniere, for many years director of the Paris In- stitution for Deaf Mutes, xve owe our first intimate knowledge of what may be termed aural vertigo. Earlier writers had called attention to the relationship be- tween otitis and nerve symptoms. Me- niere’s series of cases published in i86i brought to the atteiition of the profession the symptom-complex, which has since been recognized as a clinical entity. Let me briefly recall a few points rela- tive to the anatomy and physiology of the internal ear. The function of hearinc' is but poorly understood. The sense of hearing is the last to awaken in the de- velopmental period of infant life. Since the labyrinth is conceded by most authori-