Thymol Flocculation Test

Abstract

A great many studies have been reported concerning the thymol turbidity test.

The Importance of Historical Medical Records Review in the Interpretation of Dry Bone Lesions on Identified Skeletal Remains

“…Preserved family documents stated that the treatment had to be repeated and was very expensive. Although the cause of chronic otitis media and mastoiditis in childhood might have been some infectious disease of the time, especially tuberculosis, syphilis, typhus, scarlet fever, measles, and so on, it is very likely that the inflammation was due to functional impairment of the auditory tube mucosa 16,18 . At the same time, there were negative serological tests for the presence of syphilis during the autopsy in 1940, and there were no pathological changes suggestive of syphilis, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases in the organs; no sign of these diseases was found on the skeleton more recently 19,20 .…”

“…Hearing on the left side can be considered to have been normal, but the pneumatization of the left mastoid process is very weak (sclerotic mastoid), also suggesting recurrent otitis media in childhood due to functional impairment of the auditory tube mucosa. This change could not be made by just a single affliction 18 . The literature at that time also states that chronic otitis media was the destiny of poor people, those with poor nutrition, without property, and neglected 16 .…”