The prevention of the deafness and mortality which result from aural suppuration / by Charles J. Heath.

  • Heath, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1856-1934.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: The prevention of the deafness and mortality which result from aural suppuration / by Charles J. Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In drawing attention once again to the inadequacy of the prevailing treatment of aural suppuration, a treatment which is essentially one of inaction, I continue the crusade I started in 1906. Every year since then thousands have been killed by this disease and hundreds of thousands rendered permanently deaf by it. Moreover, directly or indirectly, aural suppuration has come to be an appreciable tax upon the community, responsible as it is for a large proportion of deaf mutes both in and outside asylums. The need of some effective treatment is therefore an urgent one. The fatal and nearly fatal cases of meningitis, brain abscess, and septic thrombosis resulting from aural suppuration, are practically all due to inadequate treatment of the aural trouble during the stage in which it is curable without loss of hearing. How frequent these calamities are is shown by the extent of the literature which is devoted to them, and by the amount of attention they reoeive at otological meetings.