Abstract
As otology continues to recover from the recession into which it allowed itself to be submerged by the advent of the antibiotic era, more attention is now being focused upon noninflammatory lesions of the ear. Interest in the system of equilibrium has been increasing in recent years, and there is, therefore, a progressive tendency to refer to the otologist patients who complain of dizziness. This is only natural when we consider that the receptor organs of the vestibular system are housed in the inner ear. The vestibular division of the statoacoustic nerve connects the end-organs with the vestibular nuclei on each side of the brain stem in the floor of the fourth ventricle. From here the vestibular fibers are connected with the nuclei of the cranial III, IV, and VI nerves through the medial longitudinal bundle as well as with the vagus (Fig. 1). Fibers also connect these nuclei with
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