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Title: A system of surgery : theoretical and practical
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Holmes, Timothy, 1825-1907 Hulke, J. W. (John Whitaker), 1830-1895
Subjects: Surgery Surgical Procedures, Operative
Publisher: New York : W. Wood
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fi.i.l. Fi^.2. Flg.3. LEB O N a Co. PLATE II
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Fi^l. Fi^.2. Fi§.3. 1- E B O N 8: C c 129 DISEASES AND INJUEIES OETHE EAR. In the present article the natural division of diseases of the ear into those of theexternal, middle, and internal respectively, will be followed for the sake of con-venience in describing them ; but it will be observed that there are many abnormalconditions of the auditory apparatus which do not admit of so precise a definition ;for, although in many diseases it happens that at first only one portion of the ear isafiected, in the later stages of some afiections two, and sometimes the three, divisionsbecome involved in turn. This observation will be found to be true in the case ofpolypus and other morbid growths, acute inflammations which accompany the exan-thematous fevers, disease of the temporal bone, syphilitic aflfections, and others whichmight be enumerated. Examination of the Ear. For a complete examination of the ear it is necessary that a thieefold methodshould be employed. In the first part, the exte

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