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MEDICAL INTRO
BOOKS ON OLD MEDICAL TREATMENTS AND REMEDIES

THE PRACTICAL
HOME PHYSICIAN AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICINE
The biggy of the late 1800's. Clearly shows the massive inroads in medical science and the treatment of disease.

ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY In fact alcohol was known to be a poison, and considered quite dangerous. Something modern medicine now agrees with. This was known circa 1907. A very impressive scientific book on the subject.

DISEASES OF THE SKIN is a massive book on skin diseases from 1914. Don't be feint hearted though, it's loaded with photos that I found disturbing.

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 19th CENTURY HEALTH MEDICINES AND DRUGS

 

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Running from the Ear.

Running from the Ear: At the end of the bony channel which constitutes the outer part of the ear, there is placed a delicate curtain or membrane, which hangs across this bony channel and closes it completely. This is the membrane of the drtim of the ear. On the inner side of this curtain is a cavity hollowed out in one of the bones of the skull, in which some of the most delicate structures concerned in the act of hearing are located. This bony cavity is called the " middle ear," or the drum of the ear. This cavity is lined with mucous membrane and communicates by a bony channel with the throat. This bony channel, called the eustachian tube, serves as a means for establishing a communication of air between the throat and the middle ear. It is extremely important that this channel remain open and pervious to air, since if it become closed, the hearing is apt to be impaired. The opening of the eustachian tube into the throat remains closed most of the time, but is opened by the act of swallowing. If air be forced into the throat, therefore, at the same time that the patient swallows, it will find its way into the eustachian tube, then through this into the middle ear. Advantage is taken of this fact in treating diseases of the middle ear ; by forcing the vapors of medicines into the nose while the patient is in the act of swallowing, we may cause these vapors to pass directly into the drum of the ear.

The channel which extends between the throat and the middle ear-the eustachian tube - is important not only because of its value in maintaining the hearing, but also in enabling us to understand some of the diseased conditions which are found in the middle ear, for an inflammation which affects the throat frequently extends through this tube into the middle ear. If the inflammation in the throat be a severe and violent one, such as occurs in scarlet fever and diphtheria, the inflammation in the ear will probably be also a severe one, resulting in the production of considerable matter.

If the inflammation in the throat be merely a slow and mild affection-a " catarrh " of the throat - the process which is originated by it in the ear will probably also be a mild affection, which is known by physicians as " catarrh of the middle ear. "

A " running from the ear " is almost always caused by an inflammation in the drum of the ear which has resulted in the production of matter. Now, the drum of the ear is a very small cavity, scarcely large enough to hold a bean ; hence it takes but a very small amount of matter to fill this cavity completely. So soon as the drum of the ear is full of matter, considerable pressure is exerted upon the nervous structures situated in the membrane which lines the drum ; for since the matter is confined within the cavity of the drum, it can find room only by pressure upon the walls of that cavity. The result of this pressure is intense pain.

This pain becomes agonizing so that the patient cannot sleep nor divert his thoughts for a moment from the torture which he experiences in his ear. After several hours or days of agony, the person experiences sudden relief; the pain ceases almost or quite entirely, and at the same moment there is a gush of matter from the ear. This sudden relief is occasioned by the bursting of the delicate membrane-the membrane of the drum - which has hitherto been sufficiently strong to keep the matter confined within the drum. The opening in the membrane may vary in size and shape, but suffices to permit a free discharge of the matter which would otherwise accumulate in the cavity of the ear. This matter is formed continuously in the drum of the ear and escapes constantly through the opening in the membrane of the drum into the external ear, and finally onto the neck. A running from the ear, therefore, is usually a sign that there has been an inflammation in the drum of the ear which has resulted in the escape of matter through the bursting of the head of the drum.

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