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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    of intestinal worms, we find murmuring and ringing of the ears a symptom. Of the organic diseases of the ear there is little to be found on record. It would seem, at times, that the fluids become so altered in their consistence as to prove an absolute destruction of the organ. Mr. Cline found in a person deaf from birth, that the whole internal ear was filled with a substance like cheese. A d isease also of the auditory nerve, like that of the retina, or optic nerve, in the gutta serena, is no unfrequent complaint; and in several cases lately, I have treated it as amarosis, with con- siderable success. Deafness in acute fever is considered a favour- able sign; as it argues, according to the old theory, a metastasis, or translation of the mor- bific matter; or rather, according to modern opinion, it shews a diminution of morbid sensi- bility of the brain. The accumulation of the vessels of the brain, or of the auditory nerve,