A clinical report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear : with remarks on the objects and utility of the institution / by John Harrison Curtis.

  • Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860.
Date:
1827
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Credit: A clinical report of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear : with remarks on the objects and utility of the institution / by John Harrison Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the case. If no means, or no appropriate means, of relief be adopted, the imperfection is confirmed, and the case becomes utterly hopeless ; or, which is indeed worse, a partial defect degenerates into a complete one, and the possibility which may once have existed of doing good is entirely removed. The truth of these observations is proved by the fact of children having heard a little at an early period of infancy, and afterwards becoming perfectly deaf In several instances perseverance has been ultimately crowned with success, although the nature of the case was originally such as to lead me almost to despair. I never fail, therefore, in whatever case, to urge, in the strongest manner, the propriety of making a trial; and no case whatever should be pronounced incurable until the hopeless result of well-appHed en- deavours shall have proved it so; and I am fuUy persuaded, that if it were the object to encourage medical treatment, in a degree corresponding to that with which the more attentive^ though probably not more efficient schemes of a mechanical description (under the denomination of education) are received,