This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...of the external and middle ear will sometimes produce vertigo. Thus the injection of cold water into the nieatus and the presence of foreign bodies are occasional causes of the condition, while in the middle ear inflammatory processes and obstruction of the Eustachian tube may lead to a similar result. In the treatment ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...of the external and middle ear will sometimes produce vertigo. Thus the injection of cold water into the nieatus and the presence of foreign bodies are occasional causes of the condition, while in the middle ear inflammatory processes and obstruction of the Eustachian tube may lead to a similar result. In the treatment of aural vertigo, the ear should be examined in the hope that a removable cause may be discovered. Hardened wax and foreign bodies should, of course, be removed, and obstruction in the Eustachiaa tube must be dealt with by inflating the tympanum, astringent applications to the pharynx, and, if necessary, by passing the Eustachian catheter. Labyrinthine vertigo is much less amenable to treatment. The most useful remedy during the intervals is quinine in large doses, e.g., gr. x-xv daily, combined with dilute hydrobromic acid, and continued for three or four weeks. The bromides, in full doses, are sometimes useful in severe attacks, and the addition of morphine may also be tried. For chronic cases, counter-irritation over the mastoid process is likely to prove serviceable. Attention should be paid to any gastric derangement, for in the subjects of aural vertigo, disorder of the stomach is liable to provoke an attack. It must not be forgotten that when the deafness becomes complete and permanent, the vertiginous attacks generally cease. Dr. Woakes has pointed out that the condition of the Eustachian tubes in post-nasal catarrh, of which indigestion is a frequent concomitant, exerts a marked influence on the induction of the so-called stomach vertigo. The result of the obstruction of the tubes is retraction of the drum-membrane, "in consequence of the external atmospheric 'pressure not being counterbalanced by the column of air behind it, wh...
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