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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER X
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All were in scientific investigators or workmen about the light, who approached it too closely or gazed at it too long and without the colored protecting spectacles now found necessary by such workers.
Injuries to the Ear .-- The folly of the practice of boxing children's ears, and the possible disastrous results subsequent to this punishment, are well exemplified throughout medical literature.

Stewart quotes four cases of rupture of the tympanum from boxing the ears, and there is an instance of a boy of eight, who was boxed on the ear at school, in whom subsequent brain-disease developed early, and death followed.

Roosa of New York mentions the loss of hearing following a kiss on the ear.
Dalby, in a paper citing many different causes of rupture of the tympanic membrane, mentions the following: A blow in sparring; violent sneezing; blowing the nose; forcible dilatation of the Eustachian canal; a thorn or twig of a tree accidentally thrust into the head; picking the ear with a toothpick.

In time of battle soldiers sometimes have their tympanums ruptured by the concussion caused by the firing of cannon.

Dalby mentions an instance of an officer who was discharged for deafness acquired in this manner during the Crimean War.


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