The diseases of the ear : their nature, diagnosis, and treatment / With a supplement by James Hinton.

  • Toynbee, Joseph, 1815-1866.
Date:
1868
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    THE DISEASES OF THE EAR. CHAPTER I. INTE O D U C! TI 0 N. NEGLECT OF THE STUDY OF THE MORBID ANATOMY OF THE EAR, THE CAUSE OF 01 It IGNORANCE OF AURAL SURGER\ MODE OF INVESTIGATING THE DISEASES 01 THE EAR — METHOD OF DISSECTING THE EAR. As introductory to this work on the Diseases of the Ear, 1 may be pardoned the observation, that the subject has hitherto been too ranch regarded, by the great mass of the Profession, as a blank in Medical Science ; indeed, to quote from Mr. Wilde's introduc- tion to his valuable treatise on Aural Surgery, medical men are too ready to affirm that they know nothing about the diseases of the organ of hearing; and many, looking upon the diffi- culties that surround the investigation as insurmountable, have tacitly abandoned its pursuit. Yet, if we carefully survey the history of the rise and progress of Aural, as a distinct branch of Scientific Surgery, one main cause of the disrepute into which it had fallen may be traced to the neglect of the Pathology of the organ of hearing—a neglect that doubtless led also to the ignorance which has prevailed as to the structure and func- tions of some of the most important of its parts. It is a question, however, whether the inherent difficulties of Aural Surgery are of a nature to prevent its being as thoroughly understood as the other branches of Surgery. This question has been answered in the affirmative by some, on the ground of the deep and hidden situation of the larger part of the organ, and the extreme intricacy of its structure. But surely the organ of v,