Single Ear Research Articles

WHAT ARE THE CURATIVE EFFECTS OF PNEUMO- AND PHONO-MASSAGE ON THE MIDDLE AND INTERNAL EAR?

This paper which I have the pleasure of presenting to you, is but an effort to explain the results achieved by my method of employing ear massage. I first presented the subject of ear massage to the Pennsylvania Medical Society in May, 1894, and in two subsequent communications to the Philadelphia Medical Society, one in May, the other in September of the same year, still further outlined the method and its results. Recalling for a moment the method and its use, you will remember that I employ it always through the external meatus by means of double or single ear tubes fitting tightly in the canal, and that I use either pneumo-phono or mixed massage. By pneumo-massage I mean the massage occasioned by the impact of a column of air thrown inwardly on the drum-head, or, where this is perforated or not present, into the middle ear, or else by