Cases and treatment of mastoid disease / by Lewis H. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Lewis Harlow.
Date:
[1891?]
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    Compliments of Rev. Horace Edwin Hay den, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Cases and Treatment of MastoM Disease. Mr. President and members of the Lnzernc County Medical Instead of attempting to prepare an elaborate paper on the subject of Mastoid Disease, as assigned me, it has seemed to me preferable and more suited to our purpose, if I should deal briefly with some of the practical points of the disease only, and rehearse a few cases from my own observation, hoping thereby to elicit from members present a full and free discussion on this painful and oftentimes dangerous disease. I have taken the liberty therefore of changing the title of the paper, and shall pass over entirely any description of the anatomy of the parts affected, merely recalling to your minds the close association of the mas- toid cells with the middle ear; the passage from one to the other, as you well remember, is frequently almost uninterrupted. This anatomical relation accounts for the readiness with which the inflammation of a chronic or even an acute otorrhcea passes over to the mastoid in some people. Primary mastoiditis is an exceedingly rare disease; in an experience of several hundred cases of ear disease I have never yet seen a case of it. Dr. Cornelius Williams, of St. Paul, reports in Archives of Otology, vol. xiii, a case which was cured by applications of ice. There had, however, been a history of recur- ring earache for many years, and it seems to me that this may have been a case secondary to old trouble previously existing in the ear. Dr. David Webster, in vol. xiii, Archives of Otology, reports three cases of inflammation of the mastoid cells without any appreciable inflammation of the middle ear. He says: Although L7Z By Lewis H. Taylor, M. D., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. [Read April 15, 1891] Society: