Otitis Media: Closing the Information Gap

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One of the great paradoxes of modern medicine is that our knowledge is often most incomplete with respect to the disorders that afflict mankind with the greatest frequency. Such is the case with otitis media.Hippocrates (460 to about 375 B.C.) was apparently the first to describe acute otitis media. He wrote, "Acute pain of the ear, with continued strong fever, is to be dreaded, for there is danger that the man may become delirious and die."1 Celsus (53 B.C. to 7 A.D.) stated, "But inflammation and pains of the ear lead sometimes to insanity and death. Thus it is . . .