THE

SEQUELS

OF SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA.

F. H.

Edgeworth, B.A., Physician

to the Bristol

Scholar

of

M.B.

Hospital for

B.Sc.

(Cantab),

(Lond.),

Sick Children and Women ;

Cains Coll., Cambridge; Late Medical Tutor, Bristol Medical School.

(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, of all brain abscesses which occur without external 50%) wound are due to suppurative otitis media. As to the position

which

abscess in the brain from

an

may occupy, statistics have been

compiled by

seventy-six

cases,

showing

%

occur

in the cerebrum.

73

19%

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