The aural surgery of the present day

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Section I. Genekal Surgeey Of The Ear

Comparison between the Eye and Ear — Anatomy — Pathological Anatomy — Physiology — Protection of the Ears — Hardness of Hearing — Deafness — Noise in the Ears — Tabular View of the Diseases of the Ear — Jiltiology of Aural Diseases — Diagnosis — Aural Speculum — Rhinoscopy — Catheterism of the Eustachian Tube — Diagnostic Tube — Catgut and other Bougies — Frequency of Aural Diseases — General Course, Prognosis, and Treatment ....

CHAPTER I.— DISEASES OF THE EXTERNAL EAR. Diseases or the Cabtilage

Inflammation of the Dermis of the Auricle

a. Acute Form ..... h. Chronic Form ....

Inflammation of the Connective Tissue of the Auricle of the Perichondrium

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Diseases of the Exteenai Meatus . . . . 41

Inflammatory Irritation of the Cuticle and of the Ceruminous

Glands .....

Removal of Poreiga Bodies from the Meatus Inflammation of the Corium of the Meatus

of the Connective Tissue of the Meatus of the Periosteum of the Meatus .

Diseases oe the Mbmbbaua Tympani

Acute Inflammation of the Membrana Tjmpani .

Chronic Inflammation of the Membrana Tympani

Perforation of the Membrana Tympani —

Aural Polypi — Artificial Perforation of Membrana Tympani . 63

Yearsley's Balls of Cotton Wool

Toynbee's Artificial Membrana Tympani .

Haemorrhage from the Meatus

Chapter Ii.— Diseases Op The Middle Ear. 42 46

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With suppressed Exudation ....

With free Exudation

With free and interstitial Exudation

With exclusively interstitial Exudation Noise in the Ears, without Hardness of Hearing . 1 13

CHAPTER ni.-DISEASES OP THE INTERN A.L EAR.

Acute Inflammation of the Labyrinth . . . . 115

Chronic Inflammation of the Labyrinth . . . • 117

Acute Inflammation of the Pacial Nerve, within the Aqueductus

Nervous Hardness of Hearing and Deafness . . .121

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Tabular Arrangement of Aural Diseases, briefly showing their Diagnosis,

Prognosis, and Treatment ..... 138