Word: mastoiditis
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...Florey believes some surgical operations might be revised to take advantage of penicillin, tried it in 22 cases of mastoid. Immediately after operation, the incision was stitched up with a small rubber tube running to the bottom of the wound and closed by a spigot. Every six hours the tube was drained and filled with a penicillin solution. After a week the tube was removed. Nineteen of the cases were healed and only three needed any further treatment...
...arrow. When he was ten his friends in Scarsdale, N.Y. dared him to shoot the first person who came along. That person happened to be the county sheriff, but Jack let fly anyway. When he grew up he studied chemistry and aeronautical engineering. A double mastoid operation in childhood almost kept him out of the Navy's air school at Pensacola, but his hearing was normal and he squeezed in. His weak eardrums were twice ruptured during dive-bombing practice. They healed. Last summer Newkirk married a Michigan girl; she took a defense job in California when he went...
...British surgeon recently did a mastoid operation on a middle-aged man who had once been a sailor. He decided to graft some skin from elsewhere on the patient's body to the site of the operation, behind his ear. When the surgeon viewed the patient's body, he found it almost completely covered with tattooed images of naked women (one named Mary) and erotic designs. Last week in the Lancet, the surgeon, writing anonymously, told how he faced his problem...
...quite unable to decide whether tattooed skin could be grafted, and, if so, what would happen. Suppose I transferred some of Mary to the mastoid, would it have any influence on the man's mentality? Would it send him seeking Mary in whatever far-distant corner of the earth he had encountered her? Suppose he subsequently developed tinnitus [ringing in the ears], would voices whisper 'Mary'? Would the skinned portion of Mary be replaced with an undecorated regrowth. . . .? Would I be liable for damages in this event...
...deep middle-ear deafness which afflicts 5,000,000 people in the U. S. is otosclerosis, a bony overgrowth blocking off the window which leads to the inner ear. Most operations designed to open a window may be dangerous, for they involve partial destruction of the heavy mastoid bone. Dr. Lempert cuts directly through the ear (see cut), and carves out a brand-new window. With a dentist's burr, he drills into the middle ear, drills out a new window in one of the semicircular canals and rearranges hammer, anvil and stirrup...