An essay on the diseases of the internal ear / by J.A. Saissy ; translated from the French by Nathan R. Smith, with a supplement on diseases of the external ear, by the translator.

  • Saissy, J. A. (Jean-Antoine), 1756-1822.
Date:
1829
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    PREFACE, BY THE TRANSLATOR, A concise manual on the diseases of the ear is an acknowl- edged desideratum in our medical literature. No sufficient work on this subject has ever been issued from the American press. With a view to supply this deficiency, I have trans- lated the following pages from the French of Saissy. The work first appeared in 1819, as an article of the Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales. It was subsequently corrected and enlarged by its author, and after his death was published in 1827 by his friend Montain, with notes by Dr. Th. Perrin. In this valuable work the author has, with industrious re- search, availed himself of all the previous improvements in this department of surgery. It embodies the excellencies of Saunders, Cooper, Leschevin, Maunoir, Itard, and Alard, and I believe there will be found in the accompanying notes nearly all the valuable facts which have been ascertained in relation to this subject since the death of Saissy. The work, I understand, is highly esteemed in France, and the practice recommended in it has been attended with very encouraging success. The attention of the reader will be particularly occupied with Saissy's excellent method of injecting the ear through the eustachian tube. We very well know how frequently the external ear is obstructed by its own secretions, free as is their egress from this cavity. The internal ear is also lined with a membrane which furnishes an excrcmcntitious fluid.