Some Facts About The Ear

Never piok or scratch the canals of the ear with pins, peneils or 6coops. It will oventually oause troublesome inflarnniation and subsequent deafness. Do not try to wash the canals of the ears with so-called aurilaves, or end of the towel, or even with the fingers. Such treatment produces impaction of the wax and is not uecessary to cleanliness. Do not try to romove wax with the ear scoop. There is danger of injuring the druinheads, or of causing inflainmation. Have some competent uerson inspect the parts with the ear-mirror, and remove the wax with the syringe, charged with warm water. This is the best way to remove auy foreign body from the external auditory canal. Only oceasionally other means are required. The parts should always be uuder iuspection. A discharge frotn the ear is always fraught with danger. It should never be neglected. Occasionly it stops itself, but frequently leads to dangerous complicatious, such as inflammation of the brain, disease of the surrounding bone, and inay set up inflammation in other parts of the body, a3 the lungs, bowels, etc. The middle ear, from which the discharge generally comes, is small, but exceedingly vulnerable. It is surrounded on all sides by vital organs, the partition wall being very thin. Syringing with warm water in such cases is absolutely essential and unaccompanied by any danger whatever. Under proper treatment there is no danger of "driving in" the discharge, which is neither a "healthy sign" nor a "safety valve." Never keep the canal blockod up with cotton, or auything else, while discharge is present. The ear requires fresh air, and is not likely to beoome more inflamed by its admittance, unless exposed to direct draft, which should be avoided. Black sheep's wool has no healing virtue. Wetting the hair, and especially when it is long, and allowiug it to dry slowly, often produces deafness and aerefravates it