Report of cases treated at the Ear Dispensary, 6 Cambridge Street, Lothian Road, for the two years July 1878 to end of June 1879, and from July 1879 to end of June 1880. Surgeon J.J. Kirk Duncanson.

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[1880]
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Credit: Report of cases treated at the Ear Dispensary, 6 Cambridge Street, Lothian Road, for the two years July 1878 to end of June 1879, and from July 1879 to end of June 1880. Surgeon J.J. Kirk Duncanson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    OF Cases treated at the Ear Dispensary, 6 Cambridge Street, Lothian Road, for the Two Years July i8j8 to end of June 1879, and from July 1879 to end of June 1880. Surgeon— J. J. KIRK DUNCANSON, M.D., CM., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.E. The following two tables are a tabulated list of the diseases of the ear met with at the Ear Dispensary, 6 Cambridge Street, Lothian Boad, during the two years July 1878 to end of June 1880. They give the names usually applied to the chief features observed in each case; of course, other symptoms and complications, giving rise to the deafness or other complaint, were met with, and had to be treated accordingly. In dispensary work, where many patients have to be seen and treated in a limited space of time, the notes taken are sometimes so imperfect that it is somewhat difficult to arrange them under their respective heads; still the unclernoted are the leading features of the several diseases for the two years. I have also appended a list of the decennial ages of the patients so far as recorded. I take this opportunity of thanking for much valuable help in the work of the Dispensary, Drs More Eeid and Oliver, and Mr John F. Thomson, third year's student of medicine, as well as Mr Gregor for aiding us in keeping the books and writ- ing out the prescriptions. July 1878 to end of June 1879. Diseases of the External Eak. Abscess of mastoid process (idiopathic), . . 1 Adenitis, . . . . . . . 6 Eczema, ....... 7 Periostitis of mastoid process, .... 2 Deafness and pain of left auricle arising from paralysis of 7th