Transactions of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology

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Excerpt from Transactions of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology: Oto-Laryngological Division, Held at Louisville, Ky., September 26, 27, 28, 1907In some of my most pronounced cases of intracranial disease no pus was found at the Operation and no evidence of active trouble existed in the tympanic cavity at the time but the tegmen of the antrum, attic and tympanum were covered with granulations and the bone was soft and soggy and gave the sensation more of cutting through chalk than through bone.I am convinced, as pointed out by korner, that in the early stage of infection of the basal meninges in¿ammatory edema may produce the same symptoms as observed in extradural abscess. In three of my cases which recovered, in which the extradural abscess of the tegmen associated with compression of the overlying tem poral lobes and the cerebral injection was disproportioned to the extradural lesion, while there was no recognizable abnormality of the intervening arachnoid, by mere contiguity without plastic exu date, the infection had passed through and red softening had begun, which in a few days more would have formed a sphenotemporal abscess. In such cases early Operation, in which free drainage is given and the infected area thoroughly irrigated, gives promise of favorable results.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.