Seromucinous otitis media and its sequelae

Cowan, D. L.; Brown, Michael

doi:10.1017/s0022215100079962

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“…Further support for an infective cause was sought in the laboratory, but with no success (Lemon, 1962). By the 1970s otologists were starting to reject the viral theory (Dawes, 1970;Cowan and Brown, 1973;Rapp and Fahey, 1973), the lack of evidence being confirmed in an editorial in the Lancet (1975). The search for an infective agent continues, however.…”

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Causes of glue ear

Black

1985

J. Laryngol. Otol.

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Over the past one hundred years medical views on the cause of glue ear have frequently changed. The medical literature was reviewed to see if these changes reflected advances in the level of scientific support for different causes. This revealed that only a few of the many proposed causes command any scientific support. An explanation for the changing pattern of views on the aetiology of glue ear was therefore sought by considering secular changes in medical knowledge and belief in general. This suggested that the views held on the cause of glue ear at any given time are influenced and largely determined by the prevailing knowledge and beliefs of medicine as a whole. This phenomenon is not peculiar to glue ear--though conditions about which there is considerable uncertainty are probably more susceptible to such influences.

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