RT Journal
A1 DRURY DW
T1 MAstoiditis-actinomycosis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD September 28
VO 93
IS 13
SP 974
OP 978
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710130014005
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710130014005
AB The inflammatory processes which attack the mucous and periosteal lining of the mastoid cells are seldom primary; they generally occur from the extension of an inflammation in the tympanic cavity. An inflammation of the mastoid process is seldom secondary to diseases of the external auditory canal. Traumatic mastoiditis is among the rarest lesions. In short, the mastoid process seems to be immune to acute disease except as a result of infection from a diseased tympanum.Historically, the subject matter of this paper is of interest in that the name streptothrix is probably invalid as a generic designation among the bacteria. Many authors, however, have used streptothrix (Corda) in place of actinomyces (Hartz). The action of the infection on the body, clinically, is practically the same in two cases.In 1890, Ginsberg1 reported the case of a business man, aged 30, admitted to a hospital, scarcely able to speak. Trismus