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EMANUEL SIMON, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1938;27(5):606-617.

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I have been using the eustachian heat bougie for treatment of various conditions of the eustachian tube and middle ear for over five years. Regularly I have received communications inquiring as to the results obtained with the heat bougie, which I presented¹ three years ago.

The eustachian heat bougie is used with the ordinary eustachian catheter; it comes in graduated sizes, the smallest being 2.5 to 3 French in diameter, that is, about the size of a no. 2 whalebone bougie. The bougie consists internally of two separate, well insulated circuits: (1) a fine resistance wire through which a low grade current runs from a control rheostat, furnishing any desired heat up to about 180 F., and (2) a circuit with a thermocouple in the distal portion of the bougie, which serves to register continuously the temperature of the mucosa with which it is in contact.

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ALBANY, N. Y.

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