Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Earache. [ARTICLE]

Earache.

Many of the current cures for earache advise the dropping of various substances Into the ear. One of the best specialists of the day pronounces this “usually an nnadvisable procedure,” and in the place of such remedies, prefers the application of warmth to the region of the ear, either by dry heat In the form of heated flannel, cotton wool, bags of hops, bran or meal, or by cloths wrung out of hot water, steam, or poultices of flaxseed or roasted onions. Cotton should not habitually be worn wedged Into the ear, for the reason that the air passage is thus closed, causing the secretions of the ear to flow more slowly or very little, and thus causing an unnatural and disagreeable and perhaps injurious dryness. As, however, many cases of aente aural trouble have resulted from bathing, and especially from diving and plunging In salt water, It is a wise precaution to plug the ears with cotton at such times.