Dr. Kettel: We have reached the last point of this conference; we are going to discuss surgery versus expectant treatment in facial palsy. The moderator has arranged some questions for us to answer.
Moderator Jongkees: If we are trying to get a general discussion, the main point is to get near the truth. It is not really so much that we try to put one thing versus the other, as if we were two kinds of prophets. In order to prove this, we can begin with some points where we all agree, eg, the cases of facial paralysis which we all believe are operable, and perhaps I may ask Mr. Cawthorne to introduce one of these cases.
Mr. Cawthorne: When facial palsy follows acute otitis media, there is no need to decompress the nerve, as all such patients in my experience recovered spontaneously. When the otitis media is chronic, an