“The lips are moving can’t hear what you say!
From the time the flight landed been this way!
To travel you are not that old!
Still should avoid when you have the cold!”
The most irritating thing when you drive is of course traffic jam! Specially when you have a shortcut to go somewhere and that bridge or tunnel is blocked!
That nagging blocked sensation and pain you feel when you are in a flight specially if you have a mild cold is chiefly because of a similar reason!
Read on!
So the middle ear is a structure which has your bones of hearing with its muscles and apparatus including the smallest bone in the body! Smallest bone!? Well, that is a blog for another day!
So while the middle ear is seated inside a cavity in a bone called the temporal bone, it still needs to know what is the news outside!
Which means that the ear is disconnected from the environment like some people living in an underground bunker or down a submarine! When this happens there occurs a difference of the pressure in the atmosphere and the ear!
Unlike Human Beings, air pressure believe in equality!
So the air always flows from a high pressure area to a low pressure one! This keeps on happening till both the areas are almost equal pressure!
The way for the air to go from high or low pressure area is this small tube which connects the ear to the environment! This is one of the most vital structures buried deep within with two openings!
So when the opening gets blocked or gets altered, the air in the middle ear goes crazy and the drum starts to act! Which is why you get the pain or block! The suction effect can even cause water to enter the ear instead of air by compensation!
This is why this little tube is so important!
The tube is named after a remarkable person who also discovered the valve of the veins which also bears his name!
The person was Bartolomeo Eustachio (writing under the Latin surname Eustacius) who wrote a remarkable series of scientific works on the anatomy of the kidney, the hearing apparatus, the teeth and their structure, and the circulatory system, including the lower vena cava and its valves (now known as the Eustachian valve!)
Eustachio extended knowledge of the internal ear by rediscovering and describing correctly the very important Eustachian tube!
He was the first to describe the internal and anterior muscles of the malleus and the stapedius, and the complicated figure of the cochlea!
So next time your ears get blocked you can think of Bartolomeo Eustachio! To unblock it though you must ask another called Antonio Maria Valsalva! Then again that is a blog for another day!
Another great personality closer home is the celebrity of the day; After becoming a doctor this person he returned to Calcutta to start his practice. Initially, he would see poor patients for free. His practice became established and people started coming from villages and far flung areas to get treated by him!
He observation of language issues prompted him to translate and write medical books in Bengali language!
His friends, patients and fraternity requested him to start a college where he could share his knowledge and treat patients. The fight for freedom from the British Raj was getting intensified in those days. There were more and more reasons to start a medical school in Calcutta, that was not associated with the Raj. He gained conviction that the idea to build a school with modern outlook was the need of the hour!
The hospital started by him with great difficulty and struggles is now a well known hospital in the news.
Hoping for justice and saluting the legend who made this hospital. He is Radha Gobinda Kar.
Now take warm water so that you do not get ear block and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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