Otology
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In the year 1887 I reported in this Journal1 a case of septic thrombosis and phlebitis of lateral sinus following middle-ear disease, which went on to a fatal termination, as all cases of the kind did at that period. But in the preceding year Mr. Victor Horsley had made the valuable suggestion 2 that ligature of the internal jugular vein might arrest the flow of septic material into the blood; and in April, 1889, Mr. Arbuthnot Lane3 reported a case of purulent thrombosis of lateral sinus in a boy aged 10, in whom he ligatured the internal jugular vein, and the boy made a rapid recovery. In 1890 Mr. Ballance4 read a paper before the Medical Society of London, wherein he recorded four successful cases of this kind, accompanied by some very valuable rules and suggestions as to the management of this hitherto very fatal class of cases. Since that time, many other surgeons?especially Macewen and Barker?have recorded cases and formulated rules, so that at the present time our knowledge of the symptoms and our method of dealing with septic thrombosis of the lateral sinus
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