Report on ophthalmology and otology : delivered before the Illinois State Medical Society, at its Thirty-Second Anniversary Meeting, held at Quincy, May, 1882 / by A.E. Prince.

  • Prince, A. E. (Arthur E.)
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1883
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Credit: Report on ophthalmology and otology : delivered before the Illinois State Medical Society, at its Thirty-Second Anniversary Meeting, held at Quincy, May, 1882 / by A.E. Prince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON % jS & V OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, By A. E. Prince, M. D., Jacksonville. Me. President and Gentlemen : In place of the preparation of a systematic report to be read on this occasion, I have selected for presentation here, two conditions, concerning the first of which,paracentesis membrani tynipani, I claim no originality, hut feel that its importance has not been sufficiently emphasized, in such a manner as to bring it prominently before the general practitioner; and secondly, I desire to make a contribution to the management of a very obstinate, and heretofore unsuccessfully treated condition of the eye, viz: asthenopia-atonica. The operation of paracentesis is sufficiently common among specialists, but these, unfortunately, are the very ones who see the cases when the damage to the drum has already been com- mitted, and then the fact is realized that if a puncture had been made by the physician in attendance, a life-long trouble might have been averted. By far the larger portion of the cases of acute purulent inflammation of the middle ear occur in the course of fevers, while the individual is under the direct attendance of the general practitioner. A definite realization