Chevalier Jackson

AMERICAN LARYNGOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: Forty-Eighth Annual Congress, Held at Hotel Chelsea, Atlantic City, May 23, 24 and 25, 1927

THETEACHING OFBRONCHOSCOPY ANDESOPHAGOSCOPY. Presented byDR.CHEVALIERJACKSON, Philadelphia. This article will be published in full in a later issue of theARCHIVES. ABSCESS OF THEBRAIN(FRONTALLOBE)FOLLOWINGSINUSITIS, WITH AREPORT OFFOURCASES. Presented byDR.CHARLESJ.IMPERATORI, New York. The following conclusions were reached: The five patients were under 28 years of age and two of these were young girls. Patient 1 was 27; patient 2, 14; patient 3, 15; patient 4, 21, and patient 5, 25. All had fronto-ethmoiditis with an abscess of the orbit, a chemosis or edema of the upper lid. In cases 1, 2, 3 and 5, external fronto-ethmoid operations were performed at the onset. In case 4, an intranasal operation was performed four days before the external operation. The apparent method of invasion of the cerebrum was: in case 1, by direct extension from the frontal

THE AURAL MASSEUR IN THE MANHATTAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL.

The aural masseur described by me in theJournal of the American Medical Associationof May 11, 1895, had given me such good results in the treatment of defective hearing and tinnitus aurium, in cases of otitis media catarrhalis chronica, that I sent an instrument like my own, some six months ago to Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa for a thorough trial and opinion on its merits. He placed the instrument in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, where it was tested thoroughly in charge of Dr. Bretano Clemens who has sent me the following report: I submit to you some results of my observations of the use of your electro-pneumatic masseur in cases of tinnitus aurium. Of late years so many instruments have been brought to the notice of the profession for the relief of this distressing affliction, and the advantages of each have been so strongly maintained