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
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    CHAP. Ill, Diseases of the Tympanum. I. Pur form Discharge of the Tympanum. The first disease of the tympanum is that named, from its leading symptom, its “ Pun- form Discharge,” which has been accurately and minutely described by Mr. Saunders. The appearance of this discharge is ichorous, and it is sometimes tinged with blood ;—if a silver instrument is stained with it, it will turn of a yellow colour. A loss of hearing naturally attends this disease; and the degree of this loss is proportioned to the injury the machinery of