A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear ; containing a comparative view of its structure and functions, and of its various diseases, arranged according to the anatomy of the organ, or as they affect the external, the intermediate and the internal ear / By John Harrison Curtis.

Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860.

Date:: 1817

Credit: A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear ; containing a comparative view of its structure and functions, and of its various diseases, arranged according to the anatomy of the organ, or as they affect the external, the intermediate and the internal ear / By John Harrison Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Fifthly. The presence of a fluid in the inter- nal ear, which is necessary to heighten the acuteness of impression, and to render it effec- tual. Such, then, as I have endeavoured to describe it, is the complex and minute structure of this important sense; and when we attend to the intricacy of its parts, the delicacy of its texture, t, • the numerous windings and sinuosities it every where displays, we are struck with wonder, and admiration at the nicety of its mechanism, and cannot be surprised that the least change should produce on it a deviation from the healthy state. To conclude: when we contemplate the varied organization of the ear in the different tribes of animals, we shall in all of them find it admirably fitted for their different situations and characters. It is the work of infinite power, \ and modified by a Supreme Being, who has adapted every creature, whether animate or inanimate, for its place. All our researches$