. Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat . vacuum insulated tube is employed most con-veniently in a movable socket handle,—such as thewriter has designed. The tube is placed at an angle 4i4 ELECTRICITY IN DISEASES OF THE EAE. in the handle. The current is gradually increasedto the tolerance of the patient, to the point wherethe buzzing becomes annoying or the fine sparksbecome too sharp. The tube is allowed to remainuntil the heat becomes a little uncomfortable, butnot longer than seven minutes, Urbantschitsch, in treating impaired hearing,resulting from purulent and non-pur
. Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat . vacuum insulated tube is employed most con-veniently in a movable socket handle,—such as thewriter has designed. The tube is placed at an angle 4i4 ELECTRICITY IN DISEASES OF THE EAE. in the handle. The current is gradually increasedto the tolerance of the patient, to the point wherethe buzzing becomes annoying or the fine sparksbecome too sharp. The tube is allowed to remainuntil the heat becomes a little uncomfortable, butnot longer than seven minutes, Urbantschitsch, in treating impaired hearing,resulting from purulent and non-purulent otitismedia, uses a screw-like negative electrode, woundwith moist cotton, in the ear, with one-tenth to two-tenths m. a. of current. He finds that more pro-duces pain and dizziness. He reports ten cases, eighteen ears, some hav-ing been previously treated for months. In six ears,there was an improvement—either of hearing, or ofnoises, or both. In all cases, the ordinary methodswere without results. Politzer writes that his experience shows that. Fig. 117.—Pneumo-Massage Attachment to be used with anyEar Pump. PNEUMO-MASSAGE. 415 permanent improvement in the hearing and com-plete removal of the subjective noises are obtainedin only rare cases by the galvanic treatment; yet itnot infrequently diminishes the tinnitus and theheaviness, pressure, dizziness and stupor, whichoften accompany aural affections. Politzer finds that pneumo-massage occasions,in many cases, not only a decided improvement inhearing, but also a temporary or permanent diminu-tion in the subjective noises, and exercises a decidedbenefit upon the head symptoms, which are not in-frequently entirely cured. Sometimes one observesan increase in the noises and dizziness and diminu-tion of hearing. Dr. Thomas Barr says that pneumo-massage, bymeans of an electric oto-massage apparatus, is calledfor when there is a retracted membrane, along withadhesions; or, where there is rigidity of the ossi-cles or fixat
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