On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley.

  • Yearsley, James, 1805-1869.
Date:
1856
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Credit: On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    A NEW METHOD OF TEEATING OTOEEI-KEA. (Reprinted from The Lancet of May 5, 1855.) It would be contrary to experience, as evinced in the history of almost every discovery, were the ad- vantages deducible from it to be at once either fully developed or duly appreciated. When in 1848 in the Lancet journal* it was my good fortune to in- troduce a mode of treatment capable of alleviating so materially certain cases of deafness previously deemed beyond the reach of our art, and that by one of the simplest of remedies, it could scarcely have occurred to me that this very practice would in its turn lead to an improved method of treating successfully another very troublesome affection— otorrhcea—an affection which has so frequently * See ‘ Lancet,’ July 8th, 1848 ; since republished in a pamphlet, entitled ‘ On a New Mode of Treating Deafness, when attended by Loss of the Membrana Tympani, associated or not with Discharge from the Ear,’ and sold by Churchill, New Burlington street. Price One Shilling. A 2