Prosper Menière

…is named for French physician Prosper Ménière, who in 1861 provided a description of patients affected by hearing loss and episodic vertigo and offered the first evidence linking vertigo to inner-ear damage.

…1861 by a French physician, Prosper Ménière. It is now known that the symptoms are caused by an excess of endolymphatic fluid in the inner ear. The cause of the excess of endolymphatic fluid is not always known, although in many cases it results from defective functioning of the endolymphatic…