A guide to the study of ear disease / by P. Mcbride.

  • McBride, P. (Peter), 1854-1946.
Date:
[1884]
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Credit: A guide to the study of ear disease / by P. Mcbride. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chloroform, acetic, or sulphuric ether have been added, may prove serviceable. The use of the interrupted current (Field) and also of the constant battery have been followed by good results. In the latter case, the anode is applied to the ear while the kathode is held in the opposite hand. As a general rule, however, it may be said that the prognosis of tinnitus aurium—due to ear disease—depends upon the curability of the latter, a question which must be decided upon the lines laid down in preceding chapters. Change of air and enlivening society are often of great importance, as they not unfrequently prevent the patient from brooding over his symptoms. It is also often desirable to explain to the sufferer that the symptom—troublesome and dis- tressing as it is—is due merely to a local condition of the ear and not to brain disease, as so many people imagine it to be.