On Deafness and Noises in the Ear Arising from Rheumatism, Gout, and Neuralgic Headache (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1876 Excerpt: ... ON DEAFNESS, ETC. CHAPTER I. RHEUMATISM AFFECTING THE STRUCTURES OF THE EAR AND HEAD. The extremely variable nature of our climate renders rheumatism, in all its forms and complications, a disease of great prevalence throughout the length and breadth of the land. The degree to which it prevails can scarcely be estimated, for thousands suffer from it in its chronic form, if not without complaint, at least without seeking for professional assistance; as they give credit to the popular persuasion that chronic rheumatism is altogether irremediable. The mortality occasionally attendant upon the acute variety of rheumatism, when complicated by the extension of the inflammatory action to one or more of the principal internal organs of the body, is attested by daily experience, as well as by the weekly returns of the registrars of births and deaths within the bills of mortality. B "Xcr Bheumatism, indeed, is to be met with throughout the world; in the hottest and the coldest climates men suffer from the effects of this widely-spread malady, and its extensive prevalence in this kingdom is a proof that temperate countries are quite as liable to the disease. Few diseases are to be met with so frequently over the habitable globe, and which affect so many different structures of the human frame. The muscles, the tendinous and nervous structures, the sheaths of tendons, the joints, especially the larger ones, the fibrous bag enveloping the heart, the scalp, and the muscles and pericranium covering the skull, the membranes inside the skull covering and protecting the brain, the central organ of sensation and of thought, the brain itself, according to some authors, the heart, lungs, and kidneys, the stomach and bowels, especially their muscular coats, the eye, the ear and ...