INCIDENTAL MASTOIDITIS. DR. EDWIN MCGINNIS.
Upper respiratory infection may be a very simple affair, evidencing itself as only a simple nasal cold of about a week's duration, or it may be more serious, and its progress through the body may reach into many distant regions.
Mastoid infection may be the end-result of an acute coryza or tonsillitis, and if the infection is limited to one or both sides, its cure may be accomplished by a simple mastoidectomy. This is a happy end-result, because the patient's pain is usually relieved by the excision of the infected cells and the leukocytosis subsides, the temperature comes down to normal and the end-result is satisfactory.
Occasionally a patient is seen who has the classic symptoms of mastoiditis, and if operation is performed there is not the happy return to normal health. An early contact was obtained with such a patient who had had a
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