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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    t 6 8 many and great difficulties to obstruct our in- quiries ; indeed, some of them would appear at first sight almost insurmountable. Nature, as we have seen, has placed the chief and most important part of the ear, in the living subject, beyond the reach of our examination; while, its diseases being rarely mortal, the ears are seldom dissected in ascertaining the causes of death. The few, therefore, who have applied them- selves to the subject of the elucidation of the morbid structure of the ear, have been obliged to dissect such ears as came by chance in their way, without knowing any thing of the previous history of the person to whom they belonged, or the symptoms under which he laboured. Thus, even though dissection may show the various morbid changes of the structure, the assistance of anatomy is still highly imperfect, in so far as these changes are not accom- panied with a knowledge of the symptoms