Transactions . nd unconsciousness. He examined the ear, andfound, as he thought, redness and bulging of the sub-post,angle of the membrane. I was calh^l in at night. Tem-perature then was 100. barely, the child was free from pain,took its bottle eagerly, and did not look sick. The rightdrundiead presented the evidences found by Dr. lirown inthe morning; but there was no bulging, and in view of thegenerally improved condition, I decided to do nothing tillthe next morning. At quarter of nine a. 1 i-eceived a|)hone message tliat the child was worse, had had two convul-sions, and rectal temper
Transactions . nd unconsciousness. He examined the ear, andfound, as he thought, redness and bulging of the sub-post,angle of the membrane. I was calh^l in at night. Tem-perature then was 100. barely, the child was free from pain,took its bottle eagerly, and did not look sick. The rightdrundiead presented the evidences found by Dr. lirown inthe morning; but there was no bulging, and in view of thegenerally improved condition, I decided to do nothing tillthe next morning. At quarter of nine a. 1 i-eceived a|)hone message tliat the child was worse, had had two convul-sions, and rectal temperature was 10:^^. As soon as j^ossibleDr. Brown and 1 reached the country honn^ of the jiatientsparents. The diumhead wa^ now bidging in the sup-post-angle, and leucocyte count was 24,000. With<iut anaestheticI incised the di-uinhcad. continuing the incision into tite•anal wall. A xcry little pus was evac\iated, and recov-erv was uMe\eiit fnl. While this is mv one observation of 140 WOODS. Temjie7^ati€J^e. CASES OI- ACUTIO Ollns Mi:i>IA. J a (ill coiiNiilsiuiis, I li;i\( klH)\vii. its have all of us, (>\ haliirsdyin^ ot supposcMl iiHiiinji:itis, with oton-lioca toward theclose. I can count a hall dozen su(di cases in the faniilii-sof friends and in conversation with i)hysicians. The inti-mate conneossil)ilities. The other two cases I have classified as Referred first was a nurse, Aet. 24, at the Inion Protestant1 iiliiiiiaiv. w ho came lo me on .Ian. ioth last with a histoi-y ofIcM peri aiiiicuiar discomfort for two days. The night hefoi-cI saw her, she was awakened by severe pain along the an-terior hoi-diM- ot the sterno-eleido-mastoid muscle, at leasttwo inches below the tip. The slightest pressure here overan area of an inch in circumference was pain
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