Otitis media and human efforts to deal with it through time

Marcos V. Goycoolea; Mario Castro

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-40949-3_3

Otitis media and human efforts to deal with it through time

Marcos V. Goycoolea^*, Mario Castro

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Facultad de Medicina

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Abstract

This chapter describes, from a historical perspective, a multifactorial, multifaceted disease - otitis media - that has been highly prevalent through the ages. It shows how physicians from all over the world have approached this entity at different moments in history with the medical knowledge available at their particular time. This sequential description highlights how our current prevailing concepts in otitis media have evolved and developed. The history of otitis media teaches us that what at one time might have seemed to be the final truth was consistently surpassed and modified by new information that, in turn, became the final truth until it was surpassed again.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Textbook of Otitis Media
Subtitle of host publication	The Basics and Beyond
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	21-28
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031409493
ISBN (Print)	9783031409486
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40949-3_3
State	Published - 29 Dec 2023

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Keywords

Decreased mastoid pneumatization
History of otitis media
Morbidity in otitis media
Mortality in otitis media
Otitis media in ancient skulls
Trephining for otitis media

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