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REPORT OF NINE CASES TREATED WITH POTASSIUM IODID

J. JULIAN CHISOLM, M.D.; ALAN C. SUTTON, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1925;2(6):543-556.

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INTRODUCTION

The present article is prompted by the belief that mycotic infections of the ear occur more frequently than is generally supposed, and by the conviction that the present forms of treatment are often inadequate to effect a cure. We wish to report nine cases of this disease treated by the oral administration of large doses of potassium iodid in combination with local treatment and, in addition, four cases treated by local measures only. Nine of the thirteen cases were observed by us during the last year, since we have been especially interested in otomycosis.¹ We are, therefore, led to believe that we have been overlooking this condition in the past because of failure to make a careful search for mycelia and spores in chronic conditions of the external auditory canal and the middle ear.

HISTORICAL

It has long been known that various fungi, which are normally saprophytic, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

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