The Sequelæ of Suppurative Otitis Media
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(Continued from page 28.) 8 and 9. Brain abscess.?The importance of middle-ear disease as a cause of brain abscess is very great; for it is estimated that from 40% to 50% (Gowers, 42 % ; Barker, 50%) of all brain abscesses which occur without external wound are due to suppurative otitis media. As to the position which an abscess in the brain from ear disease may occupy, statistics have been compiled by Barr from seventy-six cases, showing that?
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The Sequelæ of Suppurative Otitis Media *This paper is—with a few additions due to later researches—a thesis read for the degree of M.B. (Cantab) in Easter Term of 1889. It is an attempt to summarise our present knowledge of the various complications which may result from suppurative otitis media.
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