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EDMUND PRINCE FOWLER, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(1):78-85.

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In health and in disease, acuity of hearing may vary from time to time, even from hour to hour, up and down, depending on factors many of which are unknown, but clinical experience warrants the conclusion that marked variations in the degree of deafness are fundamental signs of a changing condition in the ear, and they have been so interpreted in this study, irrespective of the otoscopic picture. The majority of diseases of the ear, like the majority of most diseases, are self-limited processes which tend to resolution and restoration of function. There are, however, many lesions which from their incipiency seem chronic. Though medical science has found few cures for these, it must constantly strive to solve the mysteries of their being. A considerable number of apparently chronic inflammations are associated with disease in other parts of the organism, contiguous or remote. Such are chronic disease of the organs . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Submitted for publication, Aug. 30, 1929.

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