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dropper into first one nostril and then the other, and force the medicine in as 
deeply as possible. 
Better results follow the use of the medicine in the nose than in the ear. 
If this has a good effect it should be resorted to every two or three hours, as 
required. If, however, it does not seem to lessen the pain, a teaspoonful of 
warm water and laudanum, in equal parts, should be used in the ear, in precisely 
the same way. 
Soft cloths should also be wrung from hot water or hot alcohol and kept on 
the affected side of the head if possible. Or a warm poultice of boiled onions 
will have even greater soothing effect. 
If, notwithstanding the use of cocaine or laudanum and the hot applications, 
the pain continues intolerable, morphine should be given in doses of from one- 
quarter to one-half a grain each, and repeated every hour, until some relief is 
noted. 
During the painful period, of four or five days, efforts at feeding will scarcely 
be successful, yet they should be persisted in, the debilitating character of the 
attack being kept in mind. After that stage has passed the diet must be gene- 
rous and highly nourishing, and the appetite stimulated, if necessary, by quinine, 
given three times daily, the dose being one or two grains. 
When the discharge appears the ear should be well syringed every day. 
If this treatment is insufficient to remove any offensive odor from the ear, 
the peroxide of hydrogen should be used as advised in otitis externa. 
In cases in which the discharge soon ceases and the opening in the drum 
membrane closes and heals quickly, there is usually but slight, if any, notice- 
able impairment of the hearing power, but where the opening is permanent the 
hearing is generally, though not always, much affected. When the discharge 
persists, however, and the deeper and delicate structures become diseased and 
are destroyed, very decided, or total, deafness results. 
A case that has resisted a cure for several months will generally prove hope- 
less. 
OTITIS PARASITICA. 
Several writers on canine diseases treat of a parasite to which they attribute 
an aggravated form of otitis. From their description it would seem to bear a 
very striking resemblance to the sarcoptic canis. 
One observer found this parasite in an ulcer of the ear, which was accom- 
panied by a deep-seated otitis. Sewell states that where it was present he found 
the ears looking slightly dirty, that appearance being caused by a little dried, 
brown excretion or cerumen; that if the inside of the ear is closely examined 
and carefully watched, tiny white specks, oval in shape, and about the size of the 
