Myringomycosis aspergillina (fungus ear diseases) / by James Patterson Cassells.

  • Cassells, James Patterson, 1837-1884.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Myringomycosis aspergillina (fungus ear diseases) / by James Patterson Cassells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cities those into the composition of which alcohol entered were most effective ; further, that this efficiency was in reality due to the spirit alone. Hitherto I have used alcohol either diluted or in full strength, and have good grounds to be satisfied with its action. The principle which may be laid down as a guide to those who desire to use this substance is this—do not irritate the already inflamed tissues ; in other words, let the strength of the alcoholic solution fall far short of causing pain to the patient. A young unmarried lady, when a child, had suppur¬ ating ears, the result of cold. Never had scarlatina or measles. For very many years previous to the onset of the present ear disease, she was perfect in her hearing, and free from any ear discharge. About two years ago (July, 1872) she went to reside at Matlock, at which time she had no ear disease. She left that place on the 8th of the following month (August, 1872) complaining of a fulness and burning heat in the right meatus, which after a time wras the site of occasional lancinating pains. There was also considerable deafness, and slight discharge from the canal. The patient is quite clear upon this point—viz., that previous to her visit to Matlock, she was, and had been for many years, free from ear disease. She avers further, that the symptoms with which she was afflicted towards the end of her visit, were the result'of exposure, instancing in support of this statement the fol¬ lowing :—After sitting for a length of time on a stone in the open air, she first began to experience the burning sensation in the ear passage. She returned to Scotland on the date mentioned, with the symptoms above described. Originally affected in the right ear, no great length of time elapsed till the left meatus became the seat of similar sensations. All the symptoms becoming more severe, and the general health suffering, the advice of the family practitioner wras sought and acted upon. What may have been the nature of the diagnosis come to by him, it is impossible for me to say, but the patient
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