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Title: Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cunningham, Henry S., M.D. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women Women
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind., G. F. Borst & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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omes chronicalways consult a well qualified aurist surgeon, whowill give you the proper treatment. Repeated acutecatarrhal attacks usually affect the hearing somewhat,by thickening up the drum, and also by closing theeustachian tubes leading from the mouth to the inter-nal ear. In chronic cases of abscess the bones some-times become affected, or diseased and decayed. Thedischarge then becomes very offensive, and can not becured until the dead bone is all removed. In abscess andpain in the ear, laudanum and sweet oil, in equal parts,dropped into the ear, will give relief; also, hot fomen-tations of hops and chamomile should be appliedoften, with a cathartic dose of liver pills (F 3), and onegrain of opium every two or three hours to adultsuntil relieved. Persons suffering with abscess of the ear are liable LIFE AND HYGIENE. 143 to have a cough, and it will continue until the ear iscured. Swimming of the head—vertigo, is also an at-tendant of (otitis) inflammation of the ear. The ears
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Sextons Ear Dolche for Cleaning the Ear. should be kept well cleansed. I have frequently re-moved large quantities of cerumen—wax and dirt fromthe ear of patients, where it completely plugged up theorifice and caused dullness of hearing or deafness.AVhere such is the case, fill the ears with pure sweet 144 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF oil and glycerine, in equal parts; then plug with cot-ton so it can not get out; continue once every day forone week ; then wash the ear out with a small syringe,using soap-suds. If you can not remove the plug ofwax and dirt, go at once to a physician and have it re-moved, and have the ears examined, and see if there isany wax or dirt remaining; if so, use the oil andglycerine as before. The eustachian tubes often be-come closed from colds, catarrhal attacks, and thehearing becomes impaired. It is then necessary tohave them opened up. This can be done only by asurgeon, by forcing air into the tubes, with instru-ments made purposely for such treatment. LIF

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